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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kassimir, Ron

Titel

Planet of Slums

Ist Teil von

• Ethics & International Affairs, 2008, Vol.22 (1), p.121-124

Ort / Verlag

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Not that Planet of Slums lacks entirely for rhetorical flair. "Seismic hazard is the fine print in the devil's bargain of informal housing" (p. 126) is how [Mike Davis] sums up the disproportionate vulnerability of poor neighborhoods to pulverization in earthquake-prone cities. And his characterization of the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals as "the last gasp of developmental idealism" is right on the mark.