City of Quartz

Paperback • 2006 • English

City of Quartz

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About the book

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 gang...Show more

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ISBN

9781844675685

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

City of Quartz

Format

Paperback

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