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In what has become a classic of urban sociology, Mike Davis's CITY OF QUARTZ traces the history of Los Angeles from its origins into the present, and finds a place perpetually plagued with social conflict as the result of ecological, racial, and class-based power struggles. Though controversial for its apocalyptic perspective, CITY OF QUARTZ is a riveting, compelling, and thought-provoking read.
| Size | | Length: | 462 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 16.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Mike Davis's CITY OF QUARTZ is obviously a core text reference."
Washington Post - Donnell Alexander (10/08/2000)
"CITY OF QUARTZ's essential negativity -- its central trope of an apartheid of affluence, its loving dissection of the spavined secular and sacred power structures -- makes it great fun to read. It's an attitudinal artifact, as unlikely to date as THE DAY OF THE LOCUSTS. It's the decade's classic anti-LA diatribe, a black hole of Southland noir."
(06/01/1994)
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