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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by Mike Davis
Dec. 24, 2020 - Jan. 23, 2021 (read/capitalism-etc)

Davis, M. (2018). City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso Books.


Verso Books, 2018. 496 pages. Paperback. 9781786635891

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p.306
calumny »
(noun) a misrepresentation intended to harm anoth…
p.286
nostrum »
a medicine prepared by an unqualified person, esp…
p.268
stolid »
calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or a…
p.234
heteroglossia »
the presence of multiple voices or expressed view…
p.205
Miesian »
(biographical name) Ludwig 1886–1969 Am. (Ger.-bo…
p.379
in order to liquidate worker entitlements
Rial’s swashbuckling depredations finally provoke…
p.375
clutched at the final straw of an employee buyout
Local 2869 mustered for a last stand, as best it …
p.370
Japan and the growth in Western steel demand
The Vietnam War – which jump-started the Japanese…
p.352
supervisors obediently reduced the assessment
While Fontanans were watching their trees die, Ka…
p.341
garbage fattened the sixty thousand hogs
Miller’s concept of Fontana was presented as an a…