Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewNow in paperback, a brilliant book in which radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the decline of the American city. Using environmental science as his frame of understanding, Davis examines themes of urban life today - white flight, deindustrialization, housing and job segregation and discrimination, federal policy - as well as the areas he calls national sacrifice zones where warfare and arms production have rendered the landscape uninhabitable. The apocalyptic tour of urban America includes as destinations New York, Utah, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Los Angeles and San Diego. As Mike Davis shows in this extraordinary book, prophecies of urban doom too often come true. Writing by the light of burning cities - Berlin in 1945, L.A. in 1992, and New York in 2001 - he explores the future of urban life in the face of catastrophic terrorism, global warming, and runaway capitalism. His unifying theme - and challenge to conventional theory - is the radical contingency of the metropolis. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mike DavisPublisher: The New Press Imprint: The New Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 153.00cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 20.00cm Weight: 0.626kg ISBN: 9781565848443ISBN 10: 1565848446 Pages: 458 Publication Date: 01 January 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsIf 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 Author InformationMike 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
