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city of quartz - excavating the future in los angelesby davis, mike
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Book DescriptionTrade Paperback. Vintage 1990. Previous Owners Name Inside Front Cover. All books in VG or better condition. Book summaryIn what has become a classic of urban sociology, Mike Davis's CITY OF QUARTZ traces the history of Los Angeles from its origins into the present, and finds a place perpetually plagued with social conflict as the result of ecological, racial, and class-based power struggles. Though controversial for its apocalyptic perspective, CITY OF QUARTZ is a riveting, compelling, and thought-provoking read.Media Reviews"Mike Davis's CITY OF QUARTZ is obviously a core text reference." -- Donnell Alexander, Washington Post "CITY OF QUARTZ's essential negativity -- its central trope of an apartheid of affluence, its loving dissection of the spavined secular and sacred power structures -- makes it great fun to read. It's an attitudinal artifact, as unlikely to date as THE DAY OF THE LOCUSTS. It's the decade's classic anti-LA diatribe, a black hole of Southland noir." Publisher NotesThe hidden story of L.A. Mike davis shows us where the citys money comes form and who controls it while also exposing the brutal ongoing struggle between L.A.'s haves and have-nots. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere". No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work of social criticism and prophecy which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. 40 photographs. Other Recommended Books
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