POVERTY AND SLUM - A REVIEW OF A BOOK ‘PLANET OF SLUMS’

Mike Davis in his book ‘Planet of Slums’ critically described, how the different matters are interrelate to the poverty of the poor people and their settlement. He had been pinched series of images of urban poverty from the contemporary time of the planet, but at the same time critically insist on prevailing situation of their meager life and perilous dwelling conditions. Similarly, he explicated some specific relationship of poverty and informal settlement in the local and global territory. The information and analysis of this book give us new inherent circumstances of the humanity. From the moral point of view ‘the planets of slums’ try to say the humanity of the poor people and arise questions about their different living pattern in the society as well as in the planet. As a social critic Davis addresses, how fast urbanization creates a critical impacts on rundown human being. What is the reality in a conurbation while it grows hasty? How their social struggling life transform urban skin into a new breadth of outlaw in the planet earth without any social abilities? Similarly, it focus on, how dreadful politics and economy shake their livelihood and breathing atmosphere in the metropolis area? However, the review of this paper try to dramatize the real background picture of those difficulties and sought out the different linkage in the poverty and slum by means of political views