City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
| AUTHOR | Morrow, Robert; Davis, Mike |
| PUBLISHER | Verso (07/17/2018) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is "as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies" (New Yorker). No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, L.A. 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 L.A.'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. In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
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Product Details
ISBN-13:
9781786635891
ISBN-10:
1786635895
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
512
Carton Quantity:
32
Product Dimensions:
5.00 x 1.30 x 7.70 inches
Weight:
0.90 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Price on Product,
Maps,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
GB
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Social Science | Sociology - Urban
Social Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy
Dewey Decimal:
307.760
Library of Congress Control Number:
2020302177
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This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is "as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies" (New Yorker). No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, L.A. 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 L.A.'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. In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
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Author:
Davis, Mike
Writer, historian, and activist Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California at Irvine, and lives in San Diego.
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Photographer:
Morrow, Robert
Dr. Robert Morrow is the President of Morrow Technical Services and the creator of two of the leading Bluetooth courses in the wireless industry. He has given tutorials on Bluetooth, 802.11, and RFID at numerous conferences, contributes frequently to trade journals and periodicals, and received a patent on a spread spectrum communication system. Dr. Morrow is a retired Air Force pilot and professor living in Centerville, IN, where he enjoys amateur astronomy.
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