A celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion of slums. Accordingto the united nations, more than one billion people now live in theslums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book,Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosivelyunstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas ofLima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnectedfrom industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vasthumanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal worldeconomy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat isa wholly unforeseen development, and asks whether the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class onceimagined, are volcanoes waiting to erupt.
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Mike Davis. Planet of Slums
Planet of Slums
Contents
One. The Urban Climacteric
Megacities and Desokotas
Back to Dickens
Two. The Prevalence of Slums
A Global Slum Census
A Slum Typology
1. Inner-City Poverty
2. Pirate Urbanization
3. Invisible Renters
4. The Pariah Edge
Three. The Treason of the State
Keeping the Peasants Out
The Deluge
Broken Promises and Stolen Dreams
Four. Illusions of Self-Help
The Friends of the Poor
Soft Imperialism
Profits of Poverty
End of the Urban Frontier?
Five. Haussmann in the Tropics
Removing “Human Encumberments”
The City Beautiful
Criminalizing the Slum
Off Worlds
Six. Slum Ecology
Unnatural Hazards
Pathologies of Urban Form
Encroaching on Environmental Reserves
Living in Shit
Baby Killers
The Double Burden
Seven. SAPing the Third World
Urban Poverty’s Big Bang
Adjustment from Below
The Utopian Decade?
Success Stories?
Eight. A Surplus Humanity?
Myths of Informality
A Museum of Exploitation
The Little Witches of Kinshasa
Epilogue. Down Vietnam Street
Acknowledgements
Index
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Planet of Slums
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43 David Simon, “Urbanization, globalization and economic crisis in Africa,” in Rakodi, Urban Challenge, p. 95. For growth rates of English industrial cities 1800–50, see Edna Weber, The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century, New York 1899, pp. 44, 52–53.
44 A. Oberai, Population Growth, Employment and Poverty in Third World Mega-Cities (ILO Studies), London 1993, p. 165.
