邁剋•戴維斯(Mike Davis),1946年生,美國社會評論傢、城市理論傢、曆史學傢和政治活動傢,加州大學河濱分校創意寫作係教授。
譯者 林鶴,1967年生,1985年就讀清華大學建築係,1993年獲建築曆史與理論碩士學位並留校任教,2002年因病去職,著有《西方20世紀彆墅二十講》(三聯書店2007年版),並有譯作多部。
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.
In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel Westa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.
In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
發表於2024-11-23
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圖書標籤: 城市研究 城市 LA 正餐 文學批評讀物 建築理論 Harvard GSD
unapologetically dense and academic and leftist with an overwhelming amount of factual details tinged with biases (also inaccurate apparently), but def enhances my understand of LA as the city where ethereal dreams take over reality and are pursued at all costs
評分unapologetically dense and academic and leftist with an overwhelming amount of factual details tinged with biases (also inaccurate apparently), but def enhances my understand of LA as the city where ethereal dreams take over reality and are pursued at all costs
評分unapologetically dense and academic and leftist with an overwhelming amount of factual details tinged with biases (also inaccurate apparently), but def enhances my understand of LA as the city where ethereal dreams take over reality and are pursued at all costs
評分unapologetically dense and academic and leftist with an overwhelming amount of factual details tinged with biases (also inaccurate apparently), but def enhances my understand of LA as the city where ethereal dreams take over reality and are pursued at all costs
評分unapologetically dense and academic and leftist with an overwhelming amount of factual details tinged with biases (also inaccurate apparently), but def enhances my understand of LA as the city where ethereal dreams take over reality and are pursued at all costs
City of Quartz 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載