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City of Quartz

Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike Davis
1990 · 512 pages

Los Angeles read as a machine for excluding people: Davis strips the sunshine myth to find speculators, bum-proof benches, and a police force patrolling from helicopters. Two years later the city burned.

★ 5.3