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Naomi BenaronRunning the Rift is the most recent winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, as awarded by Barbara Kingsolver. It's also an... Continue »
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Dead Cities and Other Tales

by Mike Davis

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Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, a ceaseless battle waged both within cities and against nature. Photos.

Review:

"Los Angeles is Davis's great theme, and continues to be, in Dead Cities, a collection of his urgent, bone-chilling and ultimately very sad essays from the early nineties onward. L.A., the city we built to contain our dreams, has become the stuff of nightmares — plagued by ecological catastrophes, corporate corruption, despair. What do the cities we create say about us? It's not pretty." Adrienne Miller, Esquire (read the entire Esquire review)
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ISBN:
9781565847651
Author:
Davis, Mike
Publisher:
New Press
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Nature
Subject:
Sociology - Urban
Subject:
Cities and towns
Subject:
Disasters
Subject:
Urban ecology
Subject:
Urban policy
Subject:
Social conflict
Subject:
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Subject:
Social conflict -- United States.
Subject:
Sociology-Urban Studies
Copyright:
2002
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume:
97-12
Publication Date:
20021131
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
8.10x6.36x1.39 in. 1.88 lbs.
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