City of Quartz : Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by
Mike Davis
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The Essential Mike Davis
ISBN-10
1786635895
ISBN-13
9781786635891
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 24th, 2018
Print length
512 Pages
Weight
398 grams
Dimensions
12.90 x 19.70 x 4.00 cms
Product Classification:
Urban communitiesPolitics & government
Ksh 2,350.00
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In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy.
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.<br><br>In <i>City of Quartz</i>, 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.
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