Paperback, 256 pages
English language
Published Sept. 1, 2007 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
- Poverty
- Urban communities
- Urban Economics
- Urban Geography
- Political Science
- Business / Economics / Finance
- Politics/International Relations
- Commercial Policy
- Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev
- Business & Economics / Commercial Policy
- Cities and towns
- Growth
- Slums
- Urban poor