power lines illegally and run lamp wires over the sand to light their homes. 1994-- we visit concha martinezor the first time living in this tarpaper shack. like thousands of her neighbors, she has no running water or sewers, no title to her land. a single mother, concha built this one-room home for herself and her four children: abel, 12, adrian, ten, wendy five, and the youngest, alexi. their incredible struggle, and a ten-ar story of this place will illuminate some key geography themes, including: scale has several meanings in geography. one is very specific having to do with ratios of distance on a map to actual distance on the ground. but it also has a more intuitive meaning related to the size of the area in question. let's call this view of anapra a "neighborhood scale." at this scale, you see a one- sided picture of ciudad juarez. let's zoom back on this satellite image to something we'll call a "metropolitan scale." here, onhe other side of the city is a very different neighborhood. this community is called the campestre, and it's an elite enclave housing wealthy business families..