(Free and download) City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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| #165520 in Books | Davis, Mike/ Morrow, Robert (PHT) | 2006-09-04 | 2006-09-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.23 x1.50 x5.50l,1.07 | File Name: 1844675688 | 441 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| I love it and think it has a lot of original ...|By Mark M|This book is a classic analysis of urban design. I love it and think it has a lot of original thoughts. But bear in mind that (I) many of the observations are a bit specific to Los Angeles and (ii) the book is getting kind of dated.|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Impress|.com |Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not encouraging: a city--or better, a concatenation of competing city states--torn by racial enmity, economic disparity, and social anomie. Looking backward, D
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 ...
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