Overview

In his most provocative writing yet, the radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, the site of a perpetual battle waged within cities and against nature. Davis examines themes of urban life today - white flight, housing and job segregation and discrimination - and looks at areas he calls national sacrifice zones , military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have rendered uninhabitable. Davis begins his apocalyptically inflected tour with a trip to New York's Ground Zero and to the diabolic miracle of Las Vegas.

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Author:   Mike Davis
Publisher:   The New Press
Imprint:   The New Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.80cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.876kg
ISBN:  

9781565847651

ISBN 10:   1565847652
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   14 November 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Mike Davis is the author of several books, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, and Magical Urbanism.

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