{"id":802,"date":"2006-09-20T09:20:36","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T16:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=802"},"modified":"2006-09-20T09:21:29","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T16:21:29","slug":"mike-davis-planet-of-slums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/09\/20\/mike-davis-planet-of-slums\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Davis: Planet of Slums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/ucsdnews.ucsd.edu\/graphics\/images\/davis.jpg\" alt=\"US-Mexico border\" \/><em>GUEST: Mike Davis, Professor of History at the University of California at Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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 Program published a report called The Challenge of Slums. According to this report, the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest percentages of slum dwellers are in Ethiopia and Chad at 99.4%, followed by Afghanistan at 98.5%. The fastest growing slums are in the former Soviet republics, while the largest slums are largely in Latin American cities like Mexico City, Caracas, Bogota, and Lima. Prolific author and urban analyst Mike Davis, has a new book out, Planet of Slums, in which he explores the increasing problem of slums and some of the underlying reasons why slums are so prevalent and growing. Mike Davis has written many books including \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Prisoners of the American Dream,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153City of Quartz,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ecology of Fear,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Magical Urbanism,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Late Victorian Holocausts,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dead Cities,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Monster at our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mike Davis spoke on Septemeber 13th at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego. This recording was made possible by Global Voices for Justice.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 323-850-4464, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalvoicesforjustice.org\">www.globalvoicesforjustice.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}