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Mike Davis, Professor Emeritus at University of California, Riverside, a Macarthur Fellow and the author of more than 20 books speaks about his book Planet of Slums, which investigates the increasing inequality of the urban world. According the U.N., more than one billion people now live in the slums of cities. Mike Davis explores the meaning and the future of this radically unequal and unstable urban world.
6:00 Introduction of Mike Davis
11:20 Shifts in the World Today
14:20 Climate Change and Poverty
32:16 Davis's Thesis
50:00 Talk digresses
1:01:00 Public Health and Housing
1:02:40 How Housing has been destroyed
1:03:43 Abandonment Cities
1:08:00 Pharmaceutical Industry
1:13:00 Socialism and Liberalism