City of Quartz is not necessarily a straightforward book for the non-American reader. City . City of Quartz Prologue-Chapter 2 Summary & Analysis Prologue Summary: “The View from Futures Past” Writing in the late 1980s, Davis argues that the most prophetic glimpse of Los Angeles of the next millennium comes from “the ruins of its alternative future,” in the desert-surrounded city … Chapter 3. Is the question he asks in the first chapter of the book.The query regard the quality of life of residents of Los Angeles (L.A). Chapter 5 of Davis' City of Quartz is filled with violence, police brutality, drugs, and deals with how the issue of gangs was poorly handled by law enforcement, attorneys, civil rights leaders, and politicians. The prologue tells us that "the best place to view the Los Angeles of the next millenium is from the ruins of its alternative future". 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. The beginning of the chapter sets the theme with the event in which Nancy Reagen was present and searching through a… In the first few chapters of his book, Mike Davis describes the development of San Francisco. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles - Kindle edition by Davis, Mike, Morrow, Robert. In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. It is interesting to note some of the parallels between this and Cronon’s book on the development of Chicago. Initially the land was owned be the haciendados. of Quartz is divided into seven chapters, introduced by a short prologue. To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." The mercenaries seem like the most interesting group out off all since they are the group that has changed the least over time. These are the groups that Davis discussed in the chapter. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." Noch mehr als dieser multiperspektivische Roman brachte der Film »Straight Outta Compton« den heutigen Zuschauern eindringlich die Ereignisse jener Jahre wieder zu Bewusstsein, die auch »City of Quartz« von Mike Davis thematisiert. This new edition of Mike Davis’s visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century.No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. “The universal and ineluctable consequence of this crusade to secure the city is the destruction of accessible public space” (226). 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