Davis, Mike, 1946-2022.

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

New ed.

London ; New York : Verso, 2006.

xviii, 462 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

"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 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 West - a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity."--Publisher's description.

1844675688 (pbk.)
9781844675685 (pbk.)

Real estate development California Los Angeles.
Inner cities California Los Angeles.
Crime California Los Angeles.
Promotion immobilière Californie Los Angeles.
Society.
Crime.
Inner cities.
Politics and government.
Real estate development.
Social conditions.
Kriminalität
Soziale Situation
Stadtentwicklung
Stadscultuur.
Toekomstverwachtingen.
Stadsplanering Förenta staterna Los Angeles.
Storstäder sociologiska aspekter Förenta staterna Los Angeles.
Stadssociologi Förenta staterna Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Politics and government.
California Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Los Angeles.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 247395
Cote: BIB 176921
Statut: Disponible