Legacy of aparteid in South African cities

   Optional online resources

• "Mean Streets: Heavy Traffic, Leukemia Linked," Lucy Chubb, Environmental News Network, 4 March 2000 -- Children in Denver living near transportation corridors carrying 20,000 or more vehicles per day are about six times as likely to contract cancer, including leukemia.
• Urban Air Pollution in World Megacities, ACE Information Programme: Air Quality & Acid Rain, 1998
• "Smog Clouds Views, Chokes Lungs in Chilean Capital," Chris Aspin, Environmental News Network, 10 June 2000
• Urban Air Pollution in Australia, An Inquiry by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 1997
• Urban Air Pollution and Noise [in Sweden], SWEIONET
• "Mexico City Chokes on Record Air Polluyion," Lorraine Orlandi, Reuters News Service 2 February 2000 (posted by Environmental News Service) -- "Last year, the World Resources Institute, funded by the World Health Organization, named the city the most dangerous in the world for children in terms of air pollution, with high levels of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and total suspended particulates (TSPs)."
• "Mexico City Three-Day Alert Ends," Reuters News Service, 8 December 1998 -- "The sprawling metropolis' 18 million inhabitants often breath air severely polluted by heavy metals and fecal matter due to effluents from three million cars and hundreds of factories trapped in a bowl-shaped valley..."

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