{"product_id":"planet-of-slums-mike-davis-9781784786618","title":"Planet of Slums","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \"profound . . . brilliant\" account of the rise of the world's slums and the failures of modern urbanization--by the world's leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize-winning author)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the sprawling \u003ci\u003ebarricadas\u003c\/i\u003e of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1784786616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784786618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Mike Davis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044235768063,"sku":"9781784786618","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b6811bb0-2ad6-4a26-8b20-4dceac1ac093.jpg?v=1684971701","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/planet-of-slums-mike-davis-9781784786618","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}