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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

book by Mike Davis

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    …in 1987, and he wrote City of Quartz while teaching at local colleges. In that book, Davis chronicled the ways in which real-estate developers, politicians, the police department, and the military-industrial complex had reshaped the city over a period of decades, enriching themselves while making the city increasingly inhospitable to…

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