Davis, Mike, 1946-2022.

City of quartz : excavating the future in Los Angeles / Mike Davis ; photographs by Robert Morrow.

London ; New York : Verso, 1990.

ix, 462 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Haymarket series

This is a history and sociological study of Los Angeles. Davis looks at the city from two perspectives: that of the radical citizen who wants to grasp the totality of his city's life, and of the urban guerilla aching to see the whole thing blow. He believes that Los Angeles has come to play the double role of utopia and dystopia for advanced capitalism. With an acute eye for the absurd, the unjust, and the dangerous, he evokes Los Angeles as "a real place with a rich concrete history and a vivid, recognizable everyday life, and a system of public transit to the urban sublime." Davis deals with real estate development, ethnic groups, home-owners' associations, youth gangs, and the police. His elegiac tale points to a future in which the sublime and the dreadful are inextricable. ISBN 0-86091-303-1 : $24.95.

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Real estate development California Los Angeles.
Inner cities California Los Angeles.
Crime California Los Angeles.
Promotion immobilière Californie Los Angeles.
Criminalité Californie Los Angeles.
Crime
Inner cities
Politics and government
Real estate development
Social conditions
Soziale Situation
Sociaal-economische situatie.
Historia Dos Estados Unidos.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Politics and government.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Conditions sociales.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Politique et gouvernement.
California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.
Urban regions Social conditions
California

Haymarket series.

Location: Library main 108908
Call No.: ID HN80.L6 D3; ID:96-B1393
Status: Available