Specifically, it compares the visions of suburban southern california presented in. View the new experience and read this book on fulcrum. Notes originally published in great britain in hardcover by verso. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Architectureasfortress, crimeasbyproductofdisenfranchisement. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Architectureasfortress, crimeasbyproduct of disenfranchisement. Slums and skyscrapes housing and the city under neoliberalism david harvey dangerous times 2015 duration.
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To mike davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide ranging work of social. In its angry and political way, it describes how cities arise out of an incredibly complex and difficult set of uncontrollable forces. This looks at all of southern californias issues, including water, and weaves them into a road map for the 21st century, with lots of warning signs. 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. Davis is a marxist urban theorist, historian, and political commentator who, following the success of city of quartz, has written monographs on other american cities, including san diego and las vegas. Mike davis no metropolis has been more loved or more hated. It is a bracing, often strident reality check, an examination of the ways in which the built environment in southern california was by the 1980s increasingly controlled by a privileged coterie of real. Verso books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the englishspeaking world. Mike davis is the author of several books including planet of slums, city of quartz, ecology of fear, late victorian holocausts, and magical urbanism. Hunsaker, alan hispanic journal of behavioral sciences, v14 n4 p50207 nov 1992. Dec 05, 2016 slums and skyscrapes housing and the city under neoliberalism david harvey dangerous times 2015 duration. Mike davis collection of essays eschews the daytoday history, choosing instead to focus on several underlying factors to the ur angeleno character.