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City of Quartz : Excavating the Future of Los Angeles by Mike Davis (1990, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherVerso Books
ISBN-100860913031
ISBN-139780860913030
eBay Product ID (ePID)856971
Product Key Features
Book TitleCity of Quartz : Excavating the Future of Los Angeles
Number of Pages472 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1990
TopicSociology / Urban
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science
AuthorMike Davis
Book SeriesHaymarket Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-042081
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"Absolutely fascinating."--William Gibson "Few books shed as much light on their subjects as this opinionated and original excavation of Los Angeles from the mythical debris of its past and future."-- San Francisco Examiner "A history as fascinating as it is instructive."--Peter Ackroyd, The Times
Grade FromCollege Freshman
Dewey Decimal306/.09794/94
SynopsisNo metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA 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 LA'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 Westa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity., No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, Los Angeles brings it all together. To detractors, LA 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 LA'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 Westa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.
LC Classification NumberHN80.L7D38 1990
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