Planet of Slums - Softcover

Davis, Mike

 
9781844671601: Planet of Slums
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1844671607 ISBN 13: 9781844671601
Verlag: Verso Books, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mike Davis (1946-2022) was a writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian. He is best known for his investigations of power and class in works such as City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Planet of Slums. His last two non-fiction books are Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism. He was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1844671607
ISBN 13 
9781844671601
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
228
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