"Planet of Slums" Quotes
"Planet of Slums" by Mike Davis explores the unprecedented urbanization of poverty in our modern world.
nonfiction | 228 pages | Published in 2006
Quotes
The new urban poverty, despite its daily violence and destitution, has become normalized and invisible in the global media.
Slums are the dark side of the 'global cities' celebrated by urban boosters.
The urban explosion in the Third World will have to be confronted not just as a social problem, but as an environmental catastrophe.
Slums are becoming a key battleground in the struggle to define the urban future.
The urban poor are the true proletariat of our time, the worst victims of economic globalization.
Slums are the visible manifestations of an invisible global apartheid.
The urban poor are the essential shock troops of neoliberal globalization.
The modern metropolis has become a vast breeding ground for the most dangerous diseases of civilization.
Slums are the expression of the historical betrayal of the urban promise.
The urban poor are the ultimate recyclers of the global economy's waste.
