City of Quartz

Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (The Essential Mike Davis)

Cover Art for 9781781684306, City of Quartz by Mike Davis
ISBN: 9781781684306
Publisher: Verso
Published: 17 September, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English
Editions:
5 other editions of this product

This new edition of Mike Davis's visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century. 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 t

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