![]() Davis creates a Bosch-like portrait of America where Cold War waste disrupts genes and has made huge tracts of land into uninhabitable "national sacrifice zones" Las Vegas is continually demolished and rebuilt corporate "redevelopment" runs inner-city economies like feudal dynasties an attempt to build a subway "eats" Los Angeles and the "bourgeois utopia of a totally calculable and safe environment" is deeply shaken by September 11. ![]() Davis argues that "ecocide"-the degradation of the planet via air pollution, water pollution, nuclear waste and other industrial plagues, as well as by war-is integral to urban decay. ![]() ![]() cities over the past decade (many of these pieces date from the early 1990s), Davis (City of Quartz Ecology of Fear) goes beyond the usual boundaries of urban theory and creates a panorama of images of cities and landscapes in the throes of destruction-one in which September 11 is more norm than exception. In this astute, compelling and often shocking tour of U.S. "Lower Manhattan was soon a furnace of crimson flames, from which there was no escape" is not a lead sentence from the New York Post from last September, but an image from H.G. ![]()
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