Planet of Slums - Softcover

Davis, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844671607 ISBN 13: 9781844671601

Verlag: Verso Books, 2007

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Planet of slums editado por Earthscan

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"A brilliant book." - Arundhati Roy "There can be no doubt about the achievement of Planet of Slums, especially because it forces us, angrily, to confront the deplorable realities of slum existence and the limitations of slum policies in many developing countries" The Times "The Raymond Chandler of urban geography." - Independent "A heartbreaking book... the astonishing facts hit like anvil blows." - Financial Times"

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With a third of the global urban population already living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, Mike Davis explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence on huge populations. He shows also how poverty not only grew massively in the 1990s but how the gap between rich and poor countries expanded and how women and minorities fell further behind. Surveying the new urban poor from Bombay to Cairo, Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro, Mike Davis argues that this enormous population of marginalised labourers is not an industrious beehive of ambitious entrepreneurs but a stagnant ferment of extreme Darwinian competition which threatens to overflow the shanty-towns, and swamp the homes and businesses of the urban rich.

Details zur Ausgabe

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