You can’t overstate the importance of City of Quartz...it remains the best socio-political critique of modern L.A, the first book you’d recommend to someone seeking to understand the dark nativist currents and unyielding avarice that still shape a city so easily stereotyped but rarely understood. It is noir to the core...Even Vince Staples insisted that I read City of Quartz had I not already. — the LAnd
On the 30th anniversary of the dystopian L.A. touchstone, Jeff Weiss talks to the prophetic author and oft-misunderstood activist about political uprisings, the pandemic, and what gives him hope for the future.
In related news, back in 2015 Julia Ingalls reported on the third installment of The Third L.A. series, "which focused on the influence on city politics and culture of Mike Davis' frothy, passionate, anti-booster classic".
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Planet of Slums is excellent.
Quite the influential design manual...
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