City of Quartz
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike Davis ; photographs by Robert Morrow

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Editor(s)

Mike Davis

Publication, year

London : Vintage, 1992

Scope

462 Pages, illustrated, 20 cm.

ISBN

0099998203

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First published in 1990, Mike Davis's City of Quartz is now firmly established as something of a modern classic in the field of urban sociology, and is widely regarded as being the defining social history of Los Angeles. Davis's account of Los Angeles frequently conjures up a sense of ominous foreboding-a dark vision of a city on the verge of some apocalyptic explosion. One of the dominant themes of his narrative is the idea that Los Angeles has embodied (at least partially) a series of different Utopian dreams. It is a place that is continually reinvented, re-imagined and repackaged.

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Location

Cabinet 28 - 5: Culturele benadering van de (stedelijke) ruimte