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Planet of Slums (Paperback)
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Short Description for Planet of SlumsWith a third of the global urban population already living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, this book explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence on huge populations. It also shows how poverty grew massively in the 1990s.
Full description- Publisher: Verso Books
- Published: 30 September 2007
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Poverty & Unemployment | Urban Communities | Business Strategy | Urban & Municipal Planning
- ISBN 13: 9781844671601 ISBN 10: 1844671607
- Sales rank: 19,131
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Full description for Planet of Slums
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.
