Mike Davis

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles -- Mike Davis, Paperback

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This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is "as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies" (New Yorker)

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.

In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs L.A.'s shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West--a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity. In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.

Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso
Published: 07/17/2018
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781786635891

About the Author

Mike Davis is the author of several books including City of Quartz, The Monster at Our Door, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego.

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Anthropology, Crime - California - Los Angeles, Cultural & Social, Economic Policy, Essential Mike Davis, Mike Davis, Paperback, Political Science, Public Policy, Social Science, Sociology, Urban, Verso

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