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The urban model of development in Lima capital city has experienced a process of rapid growing from the 1950's due to an accelerated process of population growth influenced by migrants coming from the central highlands caused by political instability and extreme poverty. These homeless populations formed their squatter settlements by invading private and public lands with the purpose to settle their...