Dead Cities by Mike Davis
Urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone of modern urban America, the site of a perpetual battle waged in cities and against nature. He examines white flight, housing and job segregation, discrimination and military landscapes made uninhabitable by simulated warfare and arms production.
"If America is over, the prose laureate of its decline is Mike Davis" -JG Ballard, The Guardian "In a splendidly provocative, eloquently argued book, Davis considers the wide range of threats confronting America's cities - everything form gang culture to building deregulation; from local government corruption to toxic dumping." -The Scotsman "Rangy, astute, switchblade-wicked essays ranging from depictions of Los Angeles in film noir to a discussion of a Paiute prophet's neo-catastrophic epistemology." -Kirkus Reviews"
Mike Davis is a MacArthur fellow and the author of several books, including City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Ecology of Fear, and Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City. He has taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SciArc) and the University of California at Irvine. He lives in San Diego, California. He has personal ties in Ireland and makes frequent trips to the UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781565848443 |
| ISBN 10 | 1565848446 |
| Title | Dead Cities |
| Author | Mike Davis |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New Press |
| Year published | 2002-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 458 |
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