City of Quartz

副标题: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

ISBN: 9781844675685

出版社: Verso

出版年: 2006-9-4

页数: 441

定价: USD 21.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.

In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel Westa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.

In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.

作者简介

迈克?戴维斯（Mike Davis），1946年生，美国社会评论家、城市理论家、历史学家和政治活动家，加州大学河滨分校创意写作系教授。

译者 林鹤，1967年生，1985年就读清华大学建筑系，1993年获建筑历史与理论硕士学位并留校任教，2002年因病去职，著有《西方20世纪别墅二十讲》（三联书店2007年版），并有译作多部。

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