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City of Quartz : Excavating the Future of Los Angeles by Mike Davis (1990, Hardcover)

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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

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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