Sep 20 2006
Mike Davis: Planet of Slums
GUEST: Mike Davis, Professor of History at the University of California at Irvine
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people live in slums in the cities of the Global south. Instead of the so-called Cities of Light as once imagined by urban futurists, much of the 21st century urban world sits in squalor, surrounded by pollution, excrement, and decay. In October 2003, the United Nations Human Settlements …
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