{"id":1001,"date":"2004-05-15T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2009-04-05T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T16:25:36","slug":"planet-of-slums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2004\/05\/15\/planet-of-slums\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet of Slums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMike Davis, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newleftreview.org\"><cite>The New Left Review<\/cite><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newleftreview.org\/NLR26001.shtml\">writes<\/a> about the urbanisation of the third world (as also touched upon in <a href=\"\/wissewords2\/2004\/05\/13\/the-pentagon-as-slumlord\/\">an earlier post<\/a>):\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\">\n<p>\nUrbanists also speculate about the processes weaving together Third World cities into extraordinary new networks, corridors and hierarchies. For example, the Pearl River (Hong Kong-Guangzhou) and the Yangtze River (Shanghai) deltas, along with the Beijing-Tianjin corridor, are rapidly developing into urban-industrial megalopolises comparable to Tokyo-Osaka, the lower Rhine, or New York-Philadelphia. But this may only be the first stage in the emergence of an even larger structure: &#8216;a continuous urban corridor stretching from Japan\/North Korea to West Java.&#8217; [13] Shanghai, almost certainly, will then join Tokyo, New York and London as one of the &#8216;world cities&#8217; controlling the global web of capital and information flows.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n[&#8230;]\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut slums, however deadly and insecure, have a brilliant future. The countryside will for a short period still contain the majority of the world&#8217;s poor, but that doubtful title will pass to urban slums by 2035. [49] At least half of the coming Third World urban population explosion will be credited to the account of informal communities. Two billion slum dwellers by 2030 or 2040 is a monstrous, almost incomprehensible prospect, but urban poverty overlaps and exceeds the slums <em>perse<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nA very frightening article, reminiscent, as <a href=\"http:\/\/kenmacleod.blogspot.com\/2004_05_01_kenmacleod_archive.html#108463380291013333\">Ken MacLeod<\/a> also noted of science fiction novels like John Brunner&#8217;s <cite>Stand on Zanzibar<\/cite>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Davis, in The New Left Review writes about the urbanisation of the third world (as also touched upon in an earlier post): Urbanists also speculate about the processes weaving together Third World cities into extraordinary new networks, corridors and hierarchies. For example, the Pearl River (Hong Kong-Guangzhou) and the Yangtze River (Shanghai) deltas, along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-capitalism","tag-slums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}