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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles Hardcover - 1990

by Mike Davis


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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 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 Westa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.

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  • Title City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles
  • Author Mike Davis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 462
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1990-10-17
  • ISBN 9780860913030 / 0860913031
  • Weight 2.39 lbs (1.08 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.6 x 1.6 in (24.13 x 16.76 x 4.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90042081
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.097

Media reviews

“Absolutely fascinating.”—William Gibson

“Few books shed as much light on their subjects as this opinionated and original excavation of Los Angeles from the mythical debris of its past and future.”—San Francisco Examiner

“A history as fascinating as it is instructive.”—Peter Ackroyd, The Times

About the author

Mike Davis is the author of several books including "Planet of Slums," "City of Quartz," "Ecology of Fear," "Late Victorian Holocausts," and "Magical Urbanism." He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa'aloa, Hawaii.
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