Planet of Slums
by
Mike Davis
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The Essential Mike Davis
ISBN-10
1784786616
ISBN-13
9781784786618
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 17th, 2017
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
200 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.90 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Poverty & unemploymentUrban communities
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New edition of the classic, bestselling (100,000+ copies) worldwide survey of slums by the world's leading urbanist
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and asks whether the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, are volcanoes waiting to erupt.
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