Planet of slums, Mike Davis
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Label
Planet of slums, Mike Davis
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Planet of slums
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
58454487
Responsibility statement
Mike Davis
Summary
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the shantytowns of the cities of the south. MacArthur fellow Davis explores the future of this radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. He traces the global trajectory of informal settlement from the 1960s "slums of hope" through the debt decades of the 1970s and 1980s, to today's unprecedented megaslums. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from economic growth. Instead of the cities of light once imagined by futurists, much of the 21st-century urban world squats in squalor on floodplains, precarious hillsides or near toxic dumps. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and ends with a meditation on the "war on terror" as an incipient world war between the American empire and the new slum poor.--From publisher description
Table Of Contents
The urban climacteric -- The prevalence of slums -- The treason of the state -- Illusions of self-help -- Haussmann in the tropics -- Slum ecology -- SAPing the Third World -- A surplus humanity? -- Epilogue: Down Vietnam Street
Target audience
specialized
Creator
Subject
- Wirtschaftssoziologie
- rural-urban migration
- urban areas
- Poverty Areas
- economic development
- Versta#x1A;dterung
- Housing
- housing
- 71.14 urban society
- stadsontwikkeling
- Citadins
- ontwikkelingslanden
- huisvesting
- Urban Development
- Urban poor
- economische ontwikkeling
- economisch achtergestelden
- towns
- Vie urbaine
- Armut + Stadt
- low income
- Urban Population
- developing countries
- urban population
- Slums
- Armut
- Slum
- Sociology, Urban
- urban development
- stedelijke bevolking
- armoede
- urban sociology
- steden
- Population Dynamics
- Stedelijke gebieden
- Sociologie urbaine
- City and town life
- Verstädterung
- Pauvres en milieu urbain
- stedelijke gebieden
- Rural-urban migration
- Taudis
- slums
- Cities and towns + Growth
- housing (concept)
- laag inkomen
- Logement
- Stadsontwikkeling
- Krottenwijken
- City dwellers
- poverty
- Armoede
- Exode rural
- Villes + Croissance
- economically disadvantaged
- Entwicklungsländer
Content
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- Has instance3
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Subject56
- Wirtschaftssoziologie
- rural-urban migration
- urban areas
- Poverty Areas
- economic development
- Versta#x1A;dterung
- Housing
- housing
- 71.14 urban society
- stadsontwikkeling
- Citadins
- ontwikkelingslanden
- huisvesting
- Urban Development
- Urban poor
- economische ontwikkeling
- economisch achtergestelden
- towns
- Vie urbaine
- Armut + Stadt
- low income
- Urban Population
- developing countries
- urban population
- Slums
- Armut
- Slum
- Sociology, Urban
- urban development
- stedelijke bevolking
- armoede
- urban sociology
- steden
- Population Dynamics
- Stedelijke gebieden
- Sociologie urbaine
- City and town life
- Verstädterung
- Pauvres en milieu urbain
- stedelijke gebieden
- Rural-urban migration
- Taudis
- slums
- Cities and towns + Growth
- housing (concept)
- laag inkomen
- Logement
- Stadsontwikkeling
- Krottenwijken
- City dwellers
- poverty
- Armoede
- Exode rural
- Villes + Croissance
- economically disadvantaged
- Entwicklungsländer
- Content1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1