Ecology Of Fear Av Mike Davis

<b>A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles'' urban ecology and the city''s place in America''s cultural fantasies</b><br><br>Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of <i>City of Quartz</i>, revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A.''s fragile natural ecology with its disastrous environmental and social history, he compellingly shows a city deliberately put in harm''s way by land developers, builders, and politicians, even as the incalculable toll of inevitable future catastrophe continues to accumulate.<br><br>Counterpointing L.A.''s central role in America''s fantasy life--the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909--with its wanton denial of its own real history, Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of Americ

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