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Planet of Slums – The Third World’s Megacities

By Mike Davis

This article first appeared in New Left Review. Sometime in the next year, a woman will give birth in the Lagos slum of Ajegunle, a young man will flee his village in west Java for the bright lights of Jakarta, or a farmer will move his impoverished family into one of Lima’s innumerable pueblos jovenes.…

This article first appeared in New Left Review. Sometime in the next year, a woman will give birth in the Lagos slum of Ajegunle, a young…

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