City Of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By (author): "Mike Davis"
Publish Date: March 10th 1990
City Of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
ISBN0712666230
ISBN139780712666237
AsinCity Of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Original titleCity of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
In this taut and compulsive exploration, Mike Davis recounts the story of Los Angeles with passion, wit and an acute eye for the absurd, the unjust and, often, the dangerous. He tells a lurid tale of greed, manipulation, power and prejudice that has made Los Angeles one of the most cosmopolitan and most class-divided cities in the United States.Davis' elegiac tale points to a future in which the sublime and the dreadful are inextricable. That future does not belong to Southern California alone. Terrifyingly it belongs to us all.City of Quartz won the 1990 American Social Science Association Best Book Award.