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1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 40 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Tim Campbell. |
| Summary |
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 West-a 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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Cities and towns -- United States.
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Real estate development -- California -- Los Angeles.
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Inner cities -- California -- Los Angeles.
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Crime -- California -- Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government.
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| Added Author |
Campbell, Tim.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781977327048 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1977327044 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12087929 |
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