Planet of Slums

出版者:Verso

作者:Mike Davis

页数:228

出版时间:2007-9-17

价格:USD 19.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781844671601

图书标签:城市Urbanization社会学城市规划美国开卷8分钟urban社会

With a third of the global urban population already living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, Mike Davis explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence on huge populations. He shows also how poverty not only grew massively in the 1990s but how the gap between rich and poor countries expanded and how women and minorities fell further behind. Surveying the new urban poor from Bombay to Cairo, Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro, Mike Davis argues that this enormous population of marginalised labourers is not an industrious beehive of ambitious entrepreneurs but a stagnant ferment of extreme Darwinian competition which threatens to overflow the shanty-towns, and swamp the homes and businesses of the urban rich.

读后感

封面背面写的作者简介： ... 以及最新出版的《BUDA的武器：汽车炸弹简史》(BUDA'S WAGON: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CAR BOMB)。 这么写的话,应该排除了校对的责任,是译者的问题了吧? 再看序,是潘纯林的导师王晓路写的. 最后一段： "... 纯琳是我最四川大学指导的博士生... 这...  

19世纪末号称“光明之城”的巴黎是人们心目中现代城市的模式。城市将变成贫民窟，terrible。2006年，人类有史以来第一次城市人口多与农村人口。超级城市，2000万以上的人口。雅加达、达卡、卡拉奇、上海。全球贫富差距越来越大，2020年城市居民中45-50%是贫困人口，2030年全球...  

文/梁捷 伟大的城市与贫民窟 维科认为，城市是文明涌现的象征，那大约发生在六千年之前。城市出现，人类才拥有真正意义上的历史。而就在最近几十年，我们又在经历另一场革命，全球城市数量和城市人口数量爆炸性增长，世界上大多数人正源源不断地从农村转移到城市，创造出一个又...  

两分给原作者，光提出了客观存在的问题，但没有提出任何的解决方案，那本书的价值就非常低了，任何一个发展中国家都会存在这样那样的问题，导致贫穷的原因也是各不相同的，经济发展中出现各种问题也是无法避免的，光是陈述这样的现象意义并不大，如果能在提出存在的问题之后，...  

最近要写一篇和贫民窟有关的文章，看了一下这本书。作者是一个美国社会学家。按理说欧美作家很会批判自己所在的社会和国家，这位作者看来没那个胆量，不敢把洛杉矶、纽约和底特律的贫民窟写得清晰些，甚至伦敦巴黎都没什么笔墨，整本书可以说是布满贫民窟的第三世界。 这本书有...  

用户评价

Mike Davis is a typical urban-apocalyptic activist and he made a lot of criticism on the place (LA, California, where he is a native). An anti-wealthiness/power socialist, criticized the reformist as most of the reforms are tackling the superficial symptoms rather than the root: inequality. The arguments are too overwhelming for me.

最后来了一把无政府。够呛。 前面的分析还是挺到位的

基本上列数字，不停quote别人，but a helpful overview

基本上列数字，不停quote别人，but a helpful overview

Mike Davis is a typical urban-apocalyptic activist and he made a lot of criticism on the place (LA, California, where he is a native). An anti-wealthiness/power socialist, criticized the reformist as most of the reforms are tackling the superficial symptoms rather than the root: inequality. The arguments are too overwhelming for me.