Planet of slums

Resource Information

The work Planet of slums represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Planet of slums

Statement of responsibility

Mike Davis

Creator

• Davis, Mike, 1946-

Author

• Davis, Mike, 1946-

Subject

• Rural-urban migration
• Rural-urban migration
• Slums
• Slums
• Cities and towns -- Growth
• Sociology, Urban
• Urban poor
• Urban poor
• Sociology, Urban
• Cities and towns -- Growth

Language

eng

Summary

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 'reverse' urban boom in spite of stagnant or negative urban economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and asks whether the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, are volcanoes waiting to erupt

Cataloging source

AU@

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV4028 .D35 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult