City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Mike Davis

462 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant an...

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Moods

informative 96%
reflective 55%
challenging 51%
adventurous 13%
sad 13%
dark 10%
tense 3%

Pace

slow 62%
medium 29%
fast 7%

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