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Planet of Slums (paperback edition) | Mike Davis | 9781844671601

Planet of Slums

Auteur:Mike Davis

Uitgever:VERSO

ISBN: 978-1-8446-7160-1

  • Paperback
  • Engels
  • 228 pagina's
  • 14 sep. 2007

The 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 portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy.

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