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Planet of Slums (Paperback) Loot Price: R311
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Planet of Slums (Paperback): Mike Davis

Planet of Slums (Paperback)

Mike Davis

Series: The Essential Mike Davis

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Loot Price R311 Discovery Miles 3 110

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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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Imprint: Verso Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: The Essential Mike Davis
Release date: 2017
Authors: Mike Davis
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-661-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment
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LSN: 1-78478-661-6
Barcode: 9781784786618

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