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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. Missing Information?
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