sarah's review of Planet of Slums
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
sarah's review
rating:
bookshelves:
ecology,
economics,
socialist-politics,
southasia
status:
Read in March, 2007
This is an brilliant book, very helpful and moving, but it's a little harder to read than most of Davis's other works. (And I am a Mike Davis fan-- I celebrate the man's entire catalog.) He might go from Lusaka to Bangalore to Shanghai in the course of two sentences. I'd love to see an edition of this book with LOTS OF MAPS in it. It'd be clarifying and helpful for the reader, and you just can't go wrong with maps in books about global politics. Content: 5 stars. Organization... 3? Maybe?
Also: if you are reading up on the environment, and are horrified and think that the world may be ending, don't read Mike Davis unless you want all of your worst fears to be irrefutably confirmed.
Also: if you are reading up on the environment, and are horrified and think that the world may be ending, don't read Mike Davis unless you want all of your worst fears to be irrefutably confirmed.
comments
No comments have been added yet.
