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.

Details

Authors

Davis Mike

Type

Book

Place of publication

London

Publisher

Verso

Year

2007

Number of pages

228 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9781844671601

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

No

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

711 Dav

Volumes

1

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