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Planet of Slums

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Planet of Slums

By Mike Davis

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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....Show more

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ISBN

9781784786618

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2017

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1

Original title

Planet of Slums

Format

Paperback

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