Dead Cities by Mike Davis

Dead Cities by Mike Davis

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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.

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Dead Cities by Mike Davis

In his most provocative writing yet, the radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, the site of a perpetual battle waged within cities and against nature. Davis examines themes of urban life today - white flight, housing and job segregation and discrimination - and looks at areas he calls national sacrifice zones, military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have rendered uninhabitable. Davis begins his apocalyptically inflected tour with a trip to New York's Ground Zero and to the diabolic miracle of Las Vegas.
Mike Davis is the author of several books, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, and Magical Urbanism.
SKU GOR003375288
ISBN 13 9781565847651
ISBN 10 1565847652
Title Dead Cities
Author Mike Davis
Condition Very Good
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher The New Press
Year published 2002-11-14
Number of pages 448
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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