Economic Conditions, Urban, Conservatism & Liberalism, Political Science, Political Economy 

This fascinating world tour takes us to Dubai, where a gilded archipelago of private islands offers supreme lifestyles to the super-rich and famous; Medellin and Kabul, where drug lords - in many ways textbook capitalists - are redefining conspicuous consumption in fortified palaces; Hong Kong and Cairo, where the local nouveaux riches take shelter in fantasy Californias, while their maids sleep in rooftop chicken coops; and a dozen other places around the world where unfettered capitalism and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Contributors include: Judit Bodnar, Patrick Bond, Anne-Marie Broudehoux, Joe Day, Marco d'Eramo, Anthony Fontenot, Marina Forti, Forrest Hylton, Sara Lipton, Ajmal Maiwandi, China Mieville, Don Mitchell, Timothy Mitchell, Dennis Rodgers, Laura Ruggeri, Emir Sader, Rebecca Schoenkopf, and Jon Wiener.  

A fascinating window onto future cities and environments of the 21st century - the stark face of conspicuous consumerism gone mad 

Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
History
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Evil paradises.
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2007
(OCoLC)648641336
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mike Davis; Daniel Bertrand Monk
ISBN: 9781595580764 159558076X 9781595583925 1595583920
OCLC Number: 87737416
Description: xvi, 336 pages ; 21 cm
Contents: Dreamland / Timothy Mitchell --
Arg-e Jadid : a California oasis in the Iranian Desert / Marina Forti --
Sand, fear, and money in Dubai / Mike Davis --
Capital of chaos : the new Kabul of warlords and infidels / Anthony Fontenot and Ajmal Maiwandi --
Delirious Beijing : euphoria and despair in the olympic metropolis / Anne-Marie Broudehoux --
"Palm Springs" : imagineering California in Hong Kong / Laura Ruggeri --
Johannesburg : of gold and gangsters / Patrick Bond --
"Nueva Managua" : the disembedded city / Dennis Rodgers --
Becoming bourgeois : (postsocialist) utopias of isolation and civilization / Judit Bodnár --
"Extreme makeover" : Medellín in the new millennium / Forrest Hylton --
The most unjust country in the world / Emir Sader --
Bunkering in paradise (or, do oldsters dream of electric golf carts?) / Marco d'Eramo --
Careless people : it's the real housewives of Orange County's world; the rest of us just live in it / Rebecca Schoenkopf --
"Hell is other people" : Ted Turner's two million acres / Jon Wiener --
People like hicks : the Supreme Court announces the antiurban city / Don Mitchell --
Hubrispace : personal museums and the architectures of self-deification / Joe Day --
Monastery chic : the ascetic retreat in a neoliberal age / Sara Lipton --
Floating utopias : freedom and unfreedom of the seas / China Miéville --
Hives and swarms : on the "nature" of neoliberalism and the rise of the ecological insurgent / Daniel Bertrand Monk.
Responsibility: edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk.