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In an occasional series, we look at books that have become cultural touchstones. The death of the radical historian Mike Davis, on October 25 in San Diego, brings back memories of Los Angeles, and of ...

In 1990, Mike Davis wrote City of Quartz, insisting that Los Angeles was not a west coast utopia, but a dystopia instead. Two years later, the Rodney King riots seemed to make him a prophet. His book ...

With “City of Quartz” and other influential works, Mike Davis shaped generations of thinking about Los Angeles and its origins. The influential author scrapped boosterism for a dimmer view of a city ...

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Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not encouraging: a city--or better, a concatenation of competing city states--torn by racial enmity, ...

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Mike Davis, seen in 2004, was the author of "City of Quartz" and more than a dozen other books on politics, history and the environment. (Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times) When it was first published ...

When it was first published in 1990, Mike Davis’ “City of Quartz” hardly seemed a candidate for bestseller status. There was its author, for starters. Davis was a Marxist urban scholar whose primary ...