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Book Reviews of CITY OF QUARTZ: EXCAVATING THE FUTURE IN LOS ANGELES

CITY OF QUARTZ: EXCAVATING THE FUTURE IN LOS ANGELES
CITY OF QUARTZ EXCAVATING THE FUTURE IN LOS ANGELES
Author: MIKE DAVIS
ISBN-13: 9780099998204
ISBN-10: 0099998203
Pages: 472
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: VINTAGE
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed CITY OF QUARTZ: EXCAVATING THE FUTURE IN LOS ANGELES on
Not what I expected but good nonetheless.
buzzby avatar reviewed CITY OF QUARTZ: EXCAVATING THE FUTURE IN LOS ANGELES on + 6062 more book reviews
I kept reading, hoping that he'd have something nice to say about something in LA, but for naught. Every time he starts to compliment something, he qualifies it. He needs to move to Sidney, Nebraska or Flint, Michigan.
TheLankyYankee avatar reviewed CITY OF QUARTZ: EXCAVATING THE FUTURE IN LOS ANGELES on + 81 more book reviews
A rich read that describes the new California lifestyle.
reviewed CITY OF QUARTZ: EXCAVATING THE FUTURE IN LOS ANGELES on + 1775 more book reviews
Not easily categorized: social history/architecture, social conditions Los Angeles, etc. It was beloved by professors of geography and political science at the turn of the century when I took some classes at CalStateLA.
As no one picked up the copy I had on the shelf at the old soldiers' home for eight weeks (few readers there), I took it to the 'free' book truck at the VA Hospital where it will disappear within a day.
I read Chapter Six on the bus "New Confessions" pp. 323-372 while going there with a bag of books. It would serve very well for interested students in a high school class that emphasizes reading. He deals with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, mostly under the Francis Cardinal McIntyre and his two successors, with an emphasis on the changes in the parishes given so much Catholic Latino immigration.
He does come from a leftist viewpoint and was hard on Archbishop John Cantwell, in my opinion, who is well remembered here. My friend John K. Johnson (USMC, PTO and Korean War, later an electrician) certainly thought well of him when his name came up in conversation.
Each chapter has footnotes. Index.