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Tower of David | World’s Tallest Slum



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Squatters took over Venezuela’s Tower of David, an unfinished 45-story skyscraper, in the early 1990s, and they’ve been there ever since. The tower was originally intended to be a symbol of Caracas’ bright financial future, complete with a rooftop helipad, but construction stopped because of a banking crisis and the sudden death of the tower’s namesake, David Brillembourg.

 

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