Dead Cities
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2002
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The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-56584-844-3 (ISBN)
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Urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone of modern urban America, the site of a perpetual battle waged in cities and against nature. He examines white flight, housing and job segregation, discrimination and military landscapes made uninhabitable by simulated warfare and arms production.
Now 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.
Now 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.
Mike 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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.2002 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 20 Illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 1530 x 200 mm |
| Gewicht | 626 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-56584-844-6 / 1565848446 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-56584-844-3 / 9781565848443 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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