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Planet of Slums by Mike Davis is a nonfiction work of urban studies, political economy, and global social criticism. First published in 2006, it examines the rapid expansion of informal settlements across the cities of the Global South and argues that slum growth is not a temporary housing problem but a structural outcome of unequal globalization. Davis connects urban poverty to industrial restructuring, failed state planning, privatization, and neoliberal policy regimes that deepen social division. Rather than treating slums as isolated spaces of deprivation, the book presents them as central to understanding contemporary urban life, migration, and political conflict. Its purpose is analytical and critical: to explain how billions of people have been pushed into precarious urban environments and to show why these conditions cannot be understood apart from global economic power, historical inequality, and the changing geography of the modern city.