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City of Quartz

By Mike Davis

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City of Quartz

By Mike Davis

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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 West - a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
512
Release Date:
2018-07-17
Publication Date:
2018-07-17
Publisher:
Verso Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1786635895
ISBN13:
9781786635891
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
408 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
33 cm
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