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1. Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa’aloa, fernoweefensteci.versbyposithehowjicibifoketdi.co by:

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2. Mar 10,  · In Caro's story, power was anthropomorphized (and vilified) in the despotic person of Robert Moses, master-builder of New York City. City of Quartz updates that sprawling, kaleidoscopic depiction of the city on the west coast. But in some ways Davis' mural is more complex, more subtle/5.

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3. Mike Davis’ City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, won the Social Science Association Best Book Award. Davis is a Marxist urban theorist, historian, and political commentator who, following the success of City of Quartz, has written monographs on other American cities, including San Diego and Las Vegas.

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4. 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 tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it/5().

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5. Jul 17,  · City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® This new edition of Mike Davis's visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century'As central to the L.A. canon Our Stores Are OpenBook AnnexMembershipEducatorsGift CardsStores & EventsHelpBrand: Verso Books.

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6. Jun 30,  · Simply put, "City of Quartz" turns more than a century of mindless Los Angeles boosterism rudely, powerfully and entertainingly on its head. It .

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8. from City of Quartz “Fortress L.A.” is about a destruction of public space that derives from and reinforces a loss of public-spiritedness. “The universal and .

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