by Mike Davis · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707127693
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«City of Quartz: Los Angeles, capitale du futur» is Mike Davis's historical and sociological essay, in a French paperback edition.
Mike Davis analyzes Los Angeles as a paradigm of urban capitalism: he traces the economic and political power that governs the city and exposes the struggle between its wealthy areas and impoverished sectors. The book combines reportage, sociology and history to explain the spatial segregation and class conflict that have shaped the metropolis.
First published in 1990, the book won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This French edition published by La Découverte dates from 1997.
The book is aimed at readers of urban history, sociology and politics, interested in Los Angeles and in the power dynamics that shape large cities.
Michael Ryan Davis was an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian based in Southern California. He was best known for his investigations of power and social class in works such as City of Quartz and Late Victorian Holocausts. His last two non-fiction books were Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener, and The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism.
