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- Book Title
- Planet of Slums
- Publication Name
- Planet of Slums
- Title
- Planet of Slums
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1784786616
- EAN
- 9781784786618
- ISBN
- 9781784786618
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Genre
- Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Developing & Emerging Countries, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology / Urban
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 17/01/2017
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 6.8 Oz
- Series
- Essential Mike Davis
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world's slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live 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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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1784786616
ISBN-13
9781784786618
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219588513
Product Key Features
Book Title
Planet of Slums
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Developing & Emerging Countries, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
6.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ht119
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"A profound enquiry into an urgent subject ... a brilliant book." --Arundhati Roy "With cool indignation, Davis argues that the exponential growth of slums is no accident but the result of a perfect storm of corrupt leadership, institutional failure, and IMF-imposed programs leading to a massive transfer of wealth from rich to poor ... Like the work of Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffens over a century ago, this searing indictment makes the shame of our cities urgently clear." --Michael Sorkin "The Raymond Chandler of urban geography ... In Planet of Slums , Davis's genre is the global disaster movie, as directed by the chroniclers of Victorian poverty: Engels, Booth and Dickens. The scale of modern squalor revealed in his brilliant survey dwarfs its predecessors ... a coruscating tragedy." -- Independent "The astonishing facts hit like anvil blows ... Davis has produced a heartbreaking book that hammers the reader a little further into the ground with the blow of each new and shocking statistic." -- Financial Times "A terrifying, magisterial work." -- Harper's "There can be no doubt about the achievement of Planet of Slums ... it forces us, angrily, to confront the deplorable realities of slum existence and the limitations of slum policies in many developing countries." -- Times (London) "While many case studies have described what it means to reside in a favela , basti , kampung , gecekondu or bidonville , Davis provides a properly global portrait ... And whereas urban specialists have focused on questions of space and land use in their discussions of slums, and developmentalists on the issue of their 'informal economies', Planet of Slums commands our attention as a broader historical synthesis of the two." -- New Left Review "Davis's descriptions of the conditions endured by slum-dwellers provide reason enough to read this book. His analysis is full of gripping stories from globalization's frontline." -- New Statesman "Packed with rigorous analysis and heart-stopping facts, this is a brilliant exploration of how millions of poor city-dwellers worldwide are being driven to the squalid periurban shadowlands of today's megaslums ... Davis's book is absolutely vital reading." -- Big Issue, "In this trenchantly argued book, Mike Davis quantifies the nightmarish mass production of slums that marks the contemporary city. With cool indignation, Davis argues that the exponential growth of slums is no accident but the result of a perfect storm of corrupt leadership, institutional failure, and IMF-imposed Structural Adjustment Programs leading to a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich. Scourge of neo-liberal nostrums, Davis debunks the irresponsible myth of self-help salvation, showing exactly who gets the boot from 'bootstrap capitalism.' Like the work of Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffans over a century ago, this searing indictment makes the shame of our cities urgently clear."-Michael Sorkin "A profound enquiry into an urgent subject ... a brilliant book."-Arundhati Roy
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2021-276940
Dewey Decimal
307.3/36416091724
Series
Essential Mike Davis Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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