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Article: Dead Cities: A Natural History
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- Mother Jones
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Dead Cities: A Natural History By Mike Davis. The New Press. $27.95.
Mike Davis has long been America's guide to the shadowlands of postmodern urbanism. In City of Quartz, he unveiled a Boschian vision of Los Angeles-the city of dreams-as a Blade Runner dystopia already upon us. Ecology of Fear painted L.A. in a paranoid palette, as a metropolis unlikely to survive the combined threats of mega-quakes, fires, and El Ninos. Now, as the nation attempts to reinvent its downtowns as well-secured malls, Dead Cities forcefully returns our gaze to urban landscapes divided by race and class, and lurching [continued on page 84] [continued from page 79] unsustainably toward a showdown with Mother ...