Artifact

I don't know if this can be called an artifact but I wanted to share this picture of Rio de Janiero, a city in Brazil known for its wide gap in wealth distribution. This picture could easily be related to the environment in the form of urban sprawl and Rio surely, like many other cities of the world, specially in countries that are in the process of industrializing, produces a lot of pollution. I however would like to address the easily visible gap in wealth. Even the city's layout makes this evident. It is as if there are two cities, the one in the lower half of the picture and the other in the upper half. The lower half is of the slums where the poor of Rio de Janiero reside in what appear to be crowded conditions. The upper half shows a metropolis of important-looking high rise buildings that surely required capital and lots of it. I find it interesting that such a wide disparity is visible in such close proximity.