Planet of Slums

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, City Planning & Urban Development, Social Science
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Author: Mike Davis ISBN: 9781844674855
Publisher: Verso Books Publication: September 17, 2007
Imprint: Verso Language: English
Author: Mike Davis
ISBN: 9781844674855
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication: September 17, 2007
Imprint: Verso
Language: English

The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live

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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The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live

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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