http://mediacology.com/2006/03/29/slumming-ecology/ bridging media literacy with ecoliteracy (and other tangential meditations) Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:25:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://mediacology.com/2006/03/29/slumming-ecology/comment-page-1/#comment-296 nix Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:55:11 +0000 http://mediacology.com/?p=61#comment-296 I'm a huge Mike Davis fan and just finished "Planet of Slums"--it left me less enthusiastic than other of his books (especially "Dead Cities" and my very favorite "Ecology of Fear"). "Slums" was heavy with facts laid out in chunky chapters; I missed the fluid language and deep explorations of individual places that fill his other books. If the book had stayed longer in fewer places it would have gone farther. I’m a huge Mike Davis fan and just finished “Planet of Slums”–it left me less enthusiastic than other of his books (especially “Dead Cities” and my very favorite “Ecology of Fear”). “Slums” was heavy with facts laid out in chunky chapters; I missed the fluid language and deep explorations of individual places that fill his other books. If the book had stayed longer in fewer places it would have gone farther.

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