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Title: Planet of Slums
Condition: New
Author: Mike Davis
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1784786616
EAN: 9781784786618
ISBN: 9781784786618
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Business & Finance
Release Date: 17/01/2017
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 15mm
Item Weight: 263g
Book Series: Essential Mike Davis
Release Year: 2017
Description: 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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