City of quartz : excavating the future in Los Angeles / Mike Davis ; photographs by Robert Morrow.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Verso, 2018Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xxvii, 481 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781786635891
- 1786635895
- Real estate development -- California -- Los Angeles
- Inner cities -- California -- Los Angeles
- Crime -- California -- Los Angeles
- Sociología urbana -- Los Angeles (California, Estados Unidos)
- Promoción inmobiliaria -- Los Angeles (California, Estados Unidos)
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government
- Asia del Sur -- Política y gobierno
- Los Angeles (California) -- Política y gobierno
- 307.7609794
- HN 80 D263c 2018
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Biblioteca Juan Bosch | Biblioteca Juan Bosch | Ciencias Sociales | Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) | HN 80 D263c 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00000169945 |
Reprint of first edition published in 1990. With new preface.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-454) and index.
Prologue. The view from futures past
1. Sunshine or noir?
2. Power lines
3. Homegrown revolution
4. Fortress L.A
5. The hammer and the rock
6. New confessions
7. Junkyard of dreams
A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.'s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies.
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