PLANET OF SLUMS

Book ID/图书代码： 13850005B02498

English Summary/英文概要： In this brilliant and ambitious book Mike Davis charts the expected global urbanization explosion over the next thirty 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 ’perverse’ urban boom in spite of stagnant or negative urban economic growth. With a third of the global urban population living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, Mike Davis explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence, on huge populations. He shows also how poverty not only grew massively in the 1990s (when the IMF policies of the 1980s were supposed to reap huge rewards) but how the gap between rich and poor countries expanded and how women and minorities fell further behind. Mike Davis argues that this enormous population of marginalised labourers is not a frenzied beehive of ambitious entrepreneurs but an ’active’ unemployed, who have no choice but to subsist by some means or starve, in an arena of extreme Darwinian competition amongst the poor. It is a stagnant ferment which threatens to overflow the shanty-towns, and swamp the homes and businesses of the urban rich.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这本书中，Mike Davis向我们描述了三十年以后全球的城市化状况，他指出，除了中国，大多数国家将没有工业的增长，而是一种大量宣传的泡沫经济。全球城市人口的三分之一生活在贫民窟里，其中一半以上是20岁以下的人。Mike Davis指出了疾病的威胁，居住条件的威胁，暴力的威胁，还有太多的人口等。他也向我们说明了，1990年贫穷程度的加剧，发达国家和发展中国家差距的拉大，妇女和少数民族地位的更加降低。Mike Davis提出：巨大的劳工人口不愿意为资本家工作，他们主动失业，靠其他手段谋生或者干脆挨饿，穷人之间进行着达尔文所说的适者生存的原则。不断的暴乱想推翻城市，破坏有钱人的家和企业。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Mike Davis lives in San Diego. He is the author of Prisoners of the American Dream, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Magical Urbanism, and Late Victorian Holocausts.

Format:HARDCOVER

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