Planet of Slums

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.

Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso
Published: 01/17/2017
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781784786618
ISBN10: 1784786616
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Radicalism
- Political Science | Public Policy | City Planning & Urban Development
- Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries

About the Author
Mike Davis is the author of several books including City of Quartz, The Monster at Our Door, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego.