Mike Davis: Planet Of Slums 04.05.06 Reviewed by David Goldblatt
Mumbai, already the most densely populated and ecologically impossible city in the world, is heading for a peak of 33 million. The cities of the West African coast are fusing into an urban giant that rings the Gulf of Guinea and will exceed the size and population of the US eastern seaboard. However, unlike their Western predecessors, these monstrous agglomerations are growing without widespread industrialisation, infrastructure provison or formal job creation. .... City centres have been abandoned to street dwellers and squatters. Davis wonders if the opening scenes of the "war on terrorism" are really the overture to a conflagration that pits the insatiable desires of Western consumerism against the unfulfillable needs of the global slum. He will never sell the script to Hollywood, but the Pentagon, with its new doctrines of urban warfare, may have taken out an option. cont'd.... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10380280 _______________________________________________ in-enaction mailing list http://mail.architexturez.net/mailman/listinfo/in-enaction + Architexturez collaborative at http://portal.architexturez.org/
