Planet of Slums

Planet of Slums
Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2007-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1844671607


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Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.


Planet of Slums
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Mike Davis
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-09-17 - Publisher: Verso

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Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban po
Slums on Screen
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Igor Krstic
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-26 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyieldin
Shadow Cities
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Robert Neuwirth
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, bank
Slums
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Alan Mayne
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—
City of Quartz
Language: en
Pages: 485
Authors: Mike Davis
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-17 - Publisher: Verso Books

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This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies”