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

Main entry:

Davis, Mike, 1946-2022.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London : Vintage, 1992, c1990.

Description:

462 p. ; 20 cm.

Notes:
Originally published: London : Verso, 1990.

Summary:

Winner of the American Social Politics Award and shortlisted for the National Book Award. The book tells a tale of greed, manipulation, power and prejudice that has made Los Angeles what has been described as at once the most cosmopolitan and the most class-divided city in the United States.

ISBN:

0099998203
9780099998204

Subject:

Real estate development California Los Angeles.
Promotion immobilière Californie Los Angeles.
Crime
Inner cities
Politics and government
Real estate development
Social conditions
Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions.
California Los Angeles
Urban regions Social conditions
California

Holdings:

Location: Library main price related ephemera 267035
Call No.: BIB 199115
Status: Available

Location: Library main price 267034
Call No.: BIB 199115
Status: Available

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