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Planet 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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  • "Planetes bidonvilles"
  • "Planet of slums. Français"
  • "Planet of slums"@it
  • "De l'explosion urbaine au bidonville global"

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  • "Mike Davis konstatiert in diesem ambitionierten und verstörenden Buch eine >>Kopernikansche Wende<< der menschlichen Siedlungsgeschichte. Denn nie zuvor überstieg der Anteil der Stadtbevölkerung den Anteil der auf dem Land Wohnenden und nie zuvor sah sich eine ungeheure Anzahl von über einer Milliarde Menschen gezwungen, ihr Überleben in Armut, im Schmutz der Müllhalden, ohne (sauberes) Wasser, ohne Toiletten, ohne irgendeine Art der Gesundheits- oder Sozialversorgung zu organisieren. Die Megaslums des >>Südens<< sind Ausdruck einer im höchsten Maße ungleichen und instabilen urbanen Welt. Hier treffen die sozialen Fronten der Globalisierung in radikaler Weise aufeinander."
  • "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. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even 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 original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory. Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt? Davis provides the first global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor. He surveys Hindu fundamentalism in Bombay, the Islamist resistance in Casablanca and Cairo, street gangs in Cape Town and San Salvador, Pentecostalism in Kinshasa and Rio de Janeiro, and revolutionary populism in Caracas and La Paz. Planet of Slums ends with a provocative meditation on the war on terrorism as an incipient world war between the American empire and the new slum poor."
  • "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."@en
  • "Mike Davis konstatiert in diesem ambitionierten und verstörenden Buch eine" Kopernikansche Wende"der menschlichen Siedlungsgeschichte. Denn nie zuvor überstieg der Anteil der Stadtbevölkerung den Anteil der auf dem Land Wohnenden und nie zuvor sah sich eine ungeheure Anzahl von über einer Milliarde Menschen gezwungen, ihr Überleben in Armut, im Schmutz der Müllhalden, ohne (sauberes) Wasser, ohne Toiletten, ohne irgendeine Art der Gesundheits- oder Sozialversorgung zu organisieren. Die Megaslums des" Südens"sind Ausdruck einer im höchsten Maße ungleichen und instabilen urbanen Welt. Hier treffen die sozialen Fronten der Globalisierung in radikaler Weise aufeinander."
  • ""Pour mortels et dangereux qu'ils soient, les bidonvilles ont devant eux un avenir resplendissant. Des taudis de Lima aux collines d'ordures de Manille, des bidonvilles marécageux de Lagos à la Vieille Ville de Pékin, on assiste à l'extension exponentielle des mégalopoles du tiers monde, produits d'un exode rural mal maîtrisé. Le big bang de la pauvreté des années 1970 et 1980 - dopé par les thérapies de choc imposées par le FMI et la Banque mondiale - a ainsi transformé les bidonvilles traditionnels en 'mégabidonvilles' tentaculaires, où domine le travail informel, 'musée vivant de l'exploitation humaine'. Un milliard de personnes survivent dans les bidonvilles du monde, lieux de reproduction de la misère, à laquelle les gouvernements n'apportent aucune réponse adaptée. Désormais, les habitants mettent en péril leur vie dans des zones dangereuses, instables ou polluées. Bien loin des villes de lumière imaginées par les urbanistes, le monde urbain du XXIe siècle ressemblera de plus en plus à celui du XIXe, avec ses quartiers sordides dépeints par Dickens, Zola ou Gorki. Le pire des mondes possibles explore cette réalité urbaine méconnue et explosive, laissant entrevoir, à l'échelle planétaire, un avenir cauchemardesque."--P. 4 of cover."
  • "According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the shantytowns of the cities of the south. MacArthur fellow Davis explores the future of this radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. He traces the global trajectory of informal settlement from the 1960s "slums of hope" through the debt decades of the 1970s and 1980s, to today's unprecedented megaslums. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from economic growth. Instead of the cities of light once imagined by futurists, much of the 21st-century urban world squats in squalor on floodplains, precarious hillsides or near toxic dumps. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and ends with a meditation on the "war on terror" as an incipient world war between the American empire and the new slum poor.--From publisher description."

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  • "Libros electronicos"@es
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Planet der Slums"
  • "Le pire des mondes possibles : De l'explosion urbaine au bidonville global"
  • "Il pianeta degli slum"@it
  • "Il pianeta degli slum"
  • "Planète bidonvilles suivi d'une discussion critique Bruno Bachmann Les enfants de la même agonie"
  • "Planète bidonvilles"
  • "Planeta de ciudades miseria"
  • "Planeta de ciudades miseria"@es
  • "Le pire des mondes possibles : de l'explosion urbaine au bidonville global"
  • "Le pire des mondes possibles : de l'explosion urbaine au bidonville global"@es
  • "Planet slumov"@sl
  • "Planet of slums"
  • "Planet of slums"@en
  • "Bu man pin min ku de xing qiu = Planet of slums"
  • "Planeta slumsów"@pl
  • "布满贫民窟的星球"
  • "布满贫民窟的星球 = Planet of slums"
  • "Bu man pin min ku de xing qiu"
  • "Planeta favela"@pt
  • "Slum : världens storstäder"@sv

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