Essential Mike Davis: City of Quartz : Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)

from bruchu

Even Better Than The Original I recently re-read this updated edition of the classic "City of Quartz" by noted socialist scholar Mike Davis. This text is quickly becoming a classic and belongs alongside the great urban sociological texts such as Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American ...

from JBreedlove

The best book I read this year. Enlightening, frightening, and depressing at the same time. Hidden history, especially that of the US is very interesting. Especially that of the social movement and an undemocratic southern California.

from j_wendel_cox

A quintessential text of the New Western History and the most important work on Los Angeles in the latter half of the twentieth century.

from bruchu

Even Better Than The Original I recently re-read this updated edition of the classic "City of Quartz" by noted socialist scholar Mike Davis. This text is quickly becoming a classic and belongs alongside the great urban sociological texts such as Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American ...

from JBreedlove

The best book I read this year. Enlightening, frightening, and depressing at the same time. Hidden history, especially that of the US is very interesting. Especially that of the social movement and an undemocratic southern California.