A Planet of Slums?
Mike Davis may still be right that slums will dominate the cities of the future — but his prediction was at least a decade premature.
Mike Davis’s Planet of Slums has cast a long shadow over the world’s cities since it was published nearly 20 years ago. Expanding on his influential 2004 New Left Review essay of the same title, Davis argued that the global urban future would look more like the favelas of Brazil than the gleaming megacities of […]
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