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The celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums

About the Author

Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Reviews

The astonishing facts hit like anvil blows ... A heartbreaking book.
*Financial Times*

Davis's prose exudes a crusading fervour-if not exactly messianic, close enough.
*Village Voice*

If it's apocalypse you want-and frankly who doesn't, because how else to explain the mess we're in-nobody does it better.
*Guardian*

The Raymond Chandler of urban geography ... a coruscating tragedy.
*Independent*

A profound enquiry into an urgent subject ... a brilliant book.
*Arundhati Roy*