Mike Davis: Planet Of Slums interview
BldgBlog (Building Blog) has an excellent, lengthy interview with Mike Davis, most famous for his LA architecture autopsy City Of Quartz and most recently Planet Of Slums - "Davis discusses the rise of Pentecostalism in global
mega-slums; the threat of avian flu; the disease vectors of urban poverty; criminal and terrorist mini-states; the future of sovereignty; environmental footprints; William Gibson; the allure of Hollywood; and Viggo Mortensen's publishing imprint, Perceval Press". [Found via the JGB mailing list]
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The second part of the interview has now been published:
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/interview-with-mike-davis-part-2.html
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And some blog discussion here:
http://www.long-sunday.net/long_sunday/2006/03/in_planet_of_sl.html