![]() ![]() ![]() Davis also hits Los Angeles, the frontline of the "Second Civil War" sparked by American apartheid, and which lies waiting to be ignited in cities across the country. ![]() He then takes us to "German Village, " a Utah wasteland that was once a test site for Allied science advisors to rehearse the perfect plan for destroying Berlin, and to the diabolic miracle of Las Vegas, where environmental terrorism is practiced in the name of urban development. Using environmental science as his frame of understanding, Davis examines themes of urban life today - white fight, deindustrialization, housing and job segregation and discrimination, and federal policy - and looks at areas he calls "national sacrifice zones, " military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have rendered uninhabitable.ĭavis begins our apocalyptically inflected tour with a trip to New York's Ground Zero. In his most brilliantly syncretic writing yet, radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, a ceaseless battle waged both within cities and against nature. ![]()
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