Planet of Slums
Mike Davis
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.
الفئات:
عام:
2007
الإصدار:
1st pub.
الناشر:
Verso Books
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
240
ISBN 10:
1844671607
ISBN 13:
9781844671601
ملف:
EPUB, 881 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2007