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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-13
9781784786618
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221312872
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2017
Number of Pages
228 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Planet of Slums
Type
Textbook
Author
Mike Davis
Subject Area
Urban Planning, Economic Sociology
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
367 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Title_Author
Mike Davis
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