Planet of Slums

Name: Planet of Slums
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ISBN: 9781844671601

ISBN-10: 1844671607

ISBN-13: 9781844671601

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mike Davis

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Celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a major new introduction. 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 influential 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, even 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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 9/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English