Planet of Slums
A celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion of slums.\ 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...
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A celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion of slums.
1The urban climacteric12The prevalence of slums203The treason of the state504Illusions of self-help705Haussmann in the tropics956Slum ecology1217SAPing the third world1518A surplus humanity?174Epilogue : down Vietnam street199
\ Financial Times“The astonishing facts hit like anvil blows ... A heartbreaking book.”\ \ \ \ \ Village Voice“Davis's prose exudes a crusading fervour – if not exactly messianic, close enough.”\ \ \ Guadrian“If it's apocalypse you want – and frankly who doesn't, because how else to explain the mess we're in – nobody does it better.”\ \ \ \ \ Independent“The Raymond Chandler of urban geography ... a coruscating tragedy.”\ \ \ \ \ Arundhati Roy“A profound enquiry into an urgent subject ... a brilliant book.”\ \
