Tiny alley dwellings filled the interiors of the blocks, creating hidden impoverished alley communities.
Compounds of military housing line one edge, while a cluster of self-built dwellings fill a gap in the opposite corner.
Over the next few weeks and months, you take in so many cats that they literally overrun your home and you are forced to do the only logical thing: buy a houseboat adjacent to your dwelling and fill it with dozens and dozens of homeless cats, creating the world's first and only floating cat sanctuary. .
"Let no sadness come through this door, Let no trouble come to this dwelling, Let no fear come through this door, Let no conflict be in this place, Let this home be filled with the blessing of joy, and peace".
Her dwelling, a delicate structure filled with glittering stalactites, was inspired by the Sri Meenakshi temple in India.
Hope faded for many families on Sunday that they would find survivors, as the smell of rotting bodies spread across the enormous mound of earth, and rescuers reported the buried dwellings they reached were filled with water, suggesting anyone trapped inside would have drowned Rescuers decided to keep individual emergency workers, relatives and reporters off the mound of dirt.
And since the quarters formed by these streets were filled with dwellings, the construction of the city appeared to be good.
Back then, fear about crime and drug-addicted babies fueled a series of drug policy changes that targeted city-dwelling black Americans, and filled jails and prisons with drug offenders.
The result looks like a tidy future city filled with micro-dwellings arranged in groups of three, with communal areas for bathing and cooking, and paths for biking and walking.
But as it was they filled her dirty little dwelling with perfume and color.
