How plastic pools help poor kids fight the heat in the city
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When the heat gets tougher and the budget doesn't allow vacation time, plastic pools take the place of cars in some neighborhoods of Lisbon.

The images have spread across social media: instead of cars or on sidewalks, there were domestic, inflatable plastic swimming pools. It is an old tradition in the social housing hoods of Lisbon that stems from the old shantytowns, and it has even reached New York.