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CITY OF QUARTZ - MIKE DAVIS KARTONIERT (TB)

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 gangs  as well as armed Beirut militias.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 gives us a city of Dickensian extremes  Pynchonesque
conspiracies  and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel Westa city in which we may glimpse
our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.In this new edition  Davis provides a dazzling
update on the city's current status.

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