Full name: Dead Cities And Other Tales

Author: Mike Davis Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781565848443 1565848446

In his most provocative writing yet, the radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, the site of a perpetual battle waged within cities and against nature. Davis examines themes of urban life today - white flight, housing and job segregation and discrimination - and looks at areas he calls national sacrifice zones, military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have rendered uninhabitable. Davis begins his apocalyptically inflected tour with a trip to New York's Ground Zero and to the diabolic miracle of Las Vegas.