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Urbanization's dark side, an unsettling global survey.
"Planet of Slums" unpacks a reality that few of us are truly familiar with, but all of us need to understand. Davis takes you through the nooks and crannies of sprawling slums around the world, exposing the stark realities of life for over a billion people. If you've ever wondered about the challenges and the resilience found in the shaded areas of rapid urban growth, this book offers an unflinching examination that is as enlightening as it is distressing.
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ISBN: 9781844671601
Authors:
Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso
Date of Publication: 2007-09-17
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.97
(rated by 2931 readers)
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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.
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