Hardcover, 256 pages
English language
Published March 1, 2006 by Verso.
Planet of Slums
by Mike Davis
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Mike Davis charts the expected global urbanization explosion over the next 30 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 'peverse' urban boom in spite of stagnant or negative urban economic growth.
Subjects
- Globalization
- Urban communities
- Urbanization
- Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev
- Political Science
- Politics / Current Events
- Urban poor
- Politics/International Relations
- Sociology
- Sociology - Social Theory
- Slums
- Essays
- Current Events / General
- General
- City and town life