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Planet of Slums

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In line with the united nations, multiple billion other folks now live within the slums of the cities of the South. On this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the way forward for a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the rubbish hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, or even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the upward push of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and asks whether the nice slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, are volcanoes waiting to erupt.


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