What to Read After Planet of Slums
Readers who loved Planet of Slums by Mike Davis keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Planet of Slums is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Planet of Slums
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Rebel cities
Social justice and the city.
The Origin of Capitalism
Edge city
The new imperialism
The Urban Revolution
Liberalism
Labor and monopoly capital
Caliban and the Witch
The country and the city
City of Quartz
Spaces of hope
Extrastatecraft
The Great Transformation
The bottom billion
Los migrantes que no importan
Late Victorian Holocausts
Carbon Democracy
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Development as Freedom
Pathologies of Power
Empire
Golden Gulag