{pdf download} City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Mike Davis
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ISBN: 9781844674862 | 441 pages | 12 Mb
- City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
- Mike Davis
- Page: 441
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9781844674862
- Publisher: Verso
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Overview
This new edition of Mike Davis’s visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century. 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...
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