PLANET OF SLUMS

According to the united nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant an d ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling bar ricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic gr owth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this info...[Llegir més]