The book explores the future of an unstable and impoverished urban world, and provides a thematic overview of the rise of slums and urban poverty in the global south. Yes, within a few years, like one in 5 or so people will live this semideath of urban slum hell, thanks to the triage of humanity under global capitalism. Following the success of her bestselling book longitude, dava sobel, a former new york times science reporter, has. Surviving slum life in mumbai pulitzer prizewinning journalist katherine boo chronicles the hardscrabble lives of some of. Download free digital books in pdf, epub and mobi formats.
Mike davis 2006 planet of slums looks at the more than 1 billion people living in slums, expected to reach 2 billion people within the next 10 years. Planet of slums is a nonfiction book published in 2005 by the american author and. Excellent website with vast variety of goods to view and purchase, especially books and idols of hindu deities are amongst my favourite. Pdf find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. In planet of slums, daviss genre is the global disaster movie, as directed by the chroniclers of victorian. Latin america is the most urbanized region of the world. Featuring allnew 3d models built using data gathered by nasa and the european space agency, the planets is an aweinspiring journey through the solar system, from earth to mars and beyond. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of planet of slums by mike davis. The lord god hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the day shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks. The scale of modern squalor revealed in his brilliant survey dwarfs its predecessors a coruscating tragedy. The author of the 2006 book, planet of slums, mike davis, is a noted historian and social commentator who is often concerned with the effects of industrialization on societies, the nature of the urban. Davis, at the beginning of this chapter, gives us a basic census of the worlds slum problem.
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