Name: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in los Angeles (en Inglés)
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Author: Davis, Mike ; Morrow, Robert
ISBN: 9781786635891

portada City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in los Angeles (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Davis, Mike ; Morrow, Robert

Editorial

Verso

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

512

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.6 x 12.7 x 3.3 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781786635891

Categorías

Comunidades urbanas
Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica
Las políticas del gobierno central
Economía política

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in los Angeles (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in los Angeles (en Inglés)"

This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is "as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies" (New Yorker) No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, L.A. 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 L.A.'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. In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.