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Planet of Slums
Mike Davis
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Description for Planet of Slums
Paperback. New edition of the classic, bestselling (100,000+ copies) worldwide survey of slums by the world's leading urbanist Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 264.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784786618
SKU
V9781784786618
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Ref
99-15
About Mike Davis
Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa'aloa, Hawaii.
Reviews for Planet of Slums
In this trenchantly argued book, Mike Davis quantifies the nightmarish mass production of slums that marks the contemporary city. With cool indignation, Davis argues that the exponential growth of slums is no accident but the result of a perfect storm of corrupt leadership, institutional failure, and IMF-imposed Structural Adjustment Programs leading to a massive transfer of wealth from poor to ... Read more