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City Of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

City Of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $15.72
Synopsis

An exploration of Los Angeles, told with passion, wit and a sharp eye for the absurd, the unjust and the dangerous. The author tells a lurid tale of greed, manipulation, power and prejudice that has made LA one of the most cosmopolitan and class-divided cities in the United States.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 480
 Edition: Later Edition
 Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 04 Jun 1998
ISBN 10: 0712666230
ISBN 13: 9780712666237
Book Overview: 'Courageously broad in its scope, City of Quartz changes intellectual gear - from history to sociology to urban theory - often with consummate ease, and fits its diverse threads together in a sort of 'history noir' as gripping as any Chandler' - Listener

Media Reviews
Crime, corruption, gangland demographics, class exploitation, security and urban degeneration are the main stops on the detailed route which Mike Davis follows across Los Angeles county, and out of this journey he has created a dense and multi-levelled book...He could rival Chandler and Hammett Independent Los Angeles faces a perilous millennium whose contours will surely have no more brilliant prophet or historian than Davis London Review of Books Essential reading i-D Magazine As fascinating as it is instructive...This is a book about the myths that created Los Angeles just as surely as the property developers and the water companies - myths as potent as film noir and its offshoots in Chinatown and Blade Runner The Times
Author Bio
Unlike most writers on Southern California, Mike Davis is a native son. He was born in Fontana in 1946 and grew up in Bostonia, a now 'lost' hamlet east of San Diego. A former meatcutter and long-distance truckdriver, he teaches urban theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He is co-editor of The Year Left: An American Socialist Yearbook and author of Prisoners of the American Dream. He is married with one child.