Dead Cities: And Other Tales

By (author): "Mike Davis"
Publish Date: 2002
Dead Cities: And Other Tales
ISBN1565848446
ISBN139781565848443
AsinDead Cities: And Other Tales
Original titleDead Cities: And Other Tales
In his most provocative writing yet, the radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, the site of a perpetual battle waged within cities and against nature. Davis examines themes of urban life today - white flight, housing and job segregation and discrimination - and looks at areas he calls national sacrifice zones, military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have rendered uninhabitable. Davis begins his apocalyptically inflected tour with a trip to New York's Ground Zero and to the diabolic miracle of Las Vegas.