City of Quartz Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Name: City of Quartz Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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ISBN: 9781844675685

ISBN-10: 1844675688

ISBN-13: 9781844675685

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Mike Davis, Robert Morrow

List price: $22.95

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A fully updated edition of Mike Davis's visionary work. 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. In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 9/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 441
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.23" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Prologue: The View from Futures Past



Sunshine or Noir?



Power Lines



Homegrown Revolution



Fortress L.A.



The Hammer and the Rock



New Confessions



Junkyard of Dreams


Index