The End Of The City

"Over the past decade, through three comprehensive studies, Mike Davis has excavated the dark lands of postmodern America. In City of Quartz, his autopsy on Los Angeles, Davis revealed a town far more prone to wrongdoing than Orson Welles's 'bright, guilty place'. Ecology of Fear revisited it as a scattering of suburbs unlikely to survive mega-earthquakes, forest fires or El Niño.Now, in 2003, as America attempts to reinvent its cities through private communities and gated shopping malls, Davis turns his gaze on cities segregated by race and poverty, cities en route to an apocalyptic demise at the hands of the environment."