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    612-822-4611

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Planet of Slums

Planet of Slums

Davis, Mike

Paperback

Series: Essential Mike Davis

General SociologySocial MovementsUnited States Politics

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1784786616
ISBN13: 9781784786618
Publisher: Verso
Published: Jan 17 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world's leading urbanist offers a profound . . . brilliant account of the rise of the world's slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize-winning author).

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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