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  Planet of Slums (Hardback) By (author) Mike Davis

  

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  Short Description for Planet of SlumsCharts the expected global urbanization explosion over the next thirty years and points out that outside China most of the rest of the world's urban growth will be without industrialization or development, rather a 'perverse' urban boom in spite of stagnant or negative urban economic growth.
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  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Published: 27 March 2006
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Sociology | Political Science & Theory | Politics & Government | Urban & Municipal Planning | Globalization | Urban Communities
  • ISBN 13: 9781844670222 ISBN 10: 1844670228
  • Sales rank: 201,266

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• Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the re-election of Ronal Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.