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Planet Of Slums
Paperback Edition: 3
New edition of the classic, bestselling (100,000+ copies) worldwide survey of slums by the world's leading urbanist.
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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. Featured in the February Trades and Technologies newsletter.
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Pages : 228
Publication date : 2017-02-22
Publisher : Verso Books
Subjects: Non-fiction, Science And Technology, Social Sciences, Sociology, Poverty & Unemployment, Urban Communities