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Celebrated urban theorist lifts the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers. 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... read more
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- Erhard Berner: Add a description of this character.
- Jeremy Seabrook
- Sandhu
- Jan Van Der Linden
- Alan Gilbert
- Hans Schenk
- Peter Ward
- Solinger
- John Turner
- Frederic Thomas
- Asef Bayat
- Mobutu
- De Boeck
- De Soto
- Suzana Taschner
- A. Oberai
- Manuel Castells
- Philip Amis
- Ahmed Soliman
- Nandini Gooptu
- Paul Baross
- John Kasarda
Setting & Locations edit
- China
- London
- South Africa
- India
- Nairobi
- Latin America
- Cairo
- New York
- Kinshasa
- Mexico City
- South Asia
- Karachi
- Beijing
- Bangalore
- Dhaka
- Manila
- Mumbai
- Lagos
- Hong Kong
- Jakarta
- Egypt
- Delhi
- Shanghai
- Istanbul
- Europe
- Brazil
- Caracas
- Accra
- Zimbabwe
- Washington
- Buenos Aires
- Luanda
- Kolkata
- Bangkok
- United States
- Congo
- Singapore
- Ilo
- Khartoum
- Naples
- Calcutta
- Peru
- Pakistan
- Cambridge
- Kibera
- Aldrich
Authors & Contributors edit
- Mike Davis (Author)
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Page Count: 228
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Awards edit
- Warwick Prize for Writing (Finalist, 2009, Longlist)
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- Dewey: 307.76
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