Originally published: 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1.The Urban Climacteric -- 2.The Prevalence of Slums -- 3.The Treason of the State -- 4.Illusions of Self-Help -- 5.Haussmann in the Tropics -- 6.Slum Ecology -- 7.SAPing the Third World -- 8.A Surplus Humanity?.
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.
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