Mike Davis Planet Of Slums: Final In this essay I am going to explain why Mike Davis places responsibility on the treason of state, international banks, and lending institutions for the horrific conditions in what he describes as the urban south. I will also explain why there is a vast migration from the rural villages to the megacities of the third world. As well as the ideas of thinkers like Hernando de Soto and what Davis sees as his mistaken ideas. Mike Davis offers a comprehensive study of the present urban life and shows that slums have become the essential feature of the global crisis of urban overpopulation and underemployment. According to the United Nations, "More than
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They tend to follow a pattern of slow development to a sudden rapid growth and increase in population, much of which occurred during the 1950s and 60s. For the most part, many urban governments did their part to discourage or ban the urbanization of the rural poor, often with bigoted motives. For example in European Colonies like Africa natives were denied basic rights to own their own land or have permanent residence. European colonists passed laws that controlled Urbanization and also they saw African residents as temporary servants. This became an even more extreme issue when Apartheid took these pass laws to extremes, Natives were forced to leave their lands, and the British took complete control over the growth in the countryside. But British did not take into consideration that overcrowding in 'native quarters’ created a great health hazard Mike Davis also states that it, symbolized the lack of the native’s" right to the city. " (53). Another example would be Beijing which exercised extreme vigilance over rural emigration. The city and country side were divided and seen as separate worlds and only ever intersected under conditions set carefully by the state. Mike Davis writes, " If urban residents sometimes obtained official permission to move to another city, it was almost unheard of for peasants to win approval to leave their …show more content…
In South Vietnam forced urbanization was a system utilized by the U.S. military. This led to a soar in the urban population soared, "South Vietnam 's population soared from 15 percent to 65 percent, with five million displaced peasants turned into slum-dwellers or inhabitants of refugee camps."(57). In Turkey, the Marshall Plan Aid helped stimulate the migration from rural areas to cities which aided in modernization and economic growth. In the middle east the large growth of city dwellers occurred during the OPEC boom. A large number of people moved into cities looking for jobs but were left jobless and this disillusionment and anger became the spark to
They tend to follow a pattern of slow development to a sudden rapid growth and increase in population, much of which occurred during the 1950s and 60s. For the most part, many urban governments did their part to discourage or ban the urbanization of the rural poor, often with bigoted motives. For example in European Colonies like Africa natives were denied basic rights to own their own land or have permanent residence. European colonists passed laws that controlled Urbanization and also they saw African residents as temporary servants. This became an even more extreme issue when Apartheid took these pass laws to extremes, Natives were forced to leave their lands, and the British took complete control over the growth in the countryside. But British did not take into consideration that overcrowding in 'native quarters’ created a great health hazard Mike Davis also states that it, symbolized the lack of the native’s" right to the city. " (53). Another example would be Beijing which exercised extreme vigilance over rural emigration. The city and country side were divided and seen as separate worlds and only ever intersected under conditions set carefully by the state. Mike Davis writes, " If urban residents sometimes obtained official permission to move to another city, it was almost unheard of for peasants to win approval to leave their …show more content…
In South Vietnam forced urbanization was a system utilized by the U.S. military. This led to a soar in the urban population soared, "South Vietnam 's population soared from 15 percent to 65 percent, with five million displaced peasants turned into slum-dwellers or inhabitants of refugee camps."(57). In Turkey, the Marshall Plan Aid helped stimulate the migration from rural areas to cities which aided in modernization and economic growth. In the middle east the large growth of city dwellers occurred during the OPEC boom. A large number of people moved into cities looking for jobs but were left jobless and this disillusionment and anger became the spark to