Mike Davis: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.(Book review)

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Mike Davis

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Verso, 2006, 462 pp. (new edition)

ISBN: 1-84467-568-8 (pbk) 10.99 [pounds sterling]

First published in 199O, Mike Davis's City of Quartz is now firmly established as something of a modern classic in the field of urban sociology, and is widely regarded as being the defining social history of Los Angeles. Davis's account of Los Angeles frequently conjures up a sense of ominous foreboding--a dark vision of a city on the verge of some apocalyptic explosion. Only a few months after the publication of ...

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