Planet of slums / Mike Davis.

Main entry:

Davis, Mike, 1946-2022, author.

Title & Author:

Planet of slums / Mike Davis.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2006.

Description:

228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

1844670228 (hbk.)
9781844670222
9781844671601
1844671607
9781844674855
1844674851

Subject:

Slums.
Urban poor.
City and town life.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns Growth.
Rural-urban migration.
City dwellers.
Housing.
Poverty Areas
Urban Population
Population Dynamics
Taudis.
Pauvres en milieu urbain.
Vie urbaine.
Sociologie urbaine.
Villes Croissance.
Exode rural.
Citadins.
Logement.
urban sociology.
rural-urban migration.
slums.
housing (concept)
71.14 urban society.
Verstädterung
Slum
Armut
Wirtschaftssoziologie
Krottenwijken.
Armoede.
Stedelijke gebieden.
Armut Stadt.
Versta#x1A;dterung.
Entwicklungsländer
stedelijke gebieden
urban areas
stadsontwikkeling
urban development
economische ontwikkeling
economic development
steden
towns
armoede
poverty
economisch achtergestelden
economically disadvantaged
stedelijke bevolking
urban population
ontwikkelingslanden
developing countries
huisvesting
housing
laag inkomen
low income
Urban Development
Stadsontwikkeling

Holdings:

Location: Library main 244023
Call No.: BIB 173717
Status: Available

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