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This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is "as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies" (New Yorker).

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, L.A. 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 L.A.'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 West--a 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.

Procurando City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles? Aqui você encontra tudo sobre este livro de Mike Davis em 17 de julho de 2018. Nesta página estão a descrição da obra, os detalhes da edição (512 páginas) e os formatos disponíveis para baixar: epub, pdf, lit, odf. O livro está escrito em Inglês. Se você gosta de Livros Internacionais, História, Américas, Estados Unidos, Local e Estadual, Ocidente, explore também outros títulos da mesma categoria no Leitura em português. Veja ainda as outras obras de Mike Davis em nosso catálogo.