[lbo-talk] my Bob Fitch tribute

[Alan Rudy]

I've taught City of Quartz and Planet of Slums and both are chock-a-block
filled with goodness (and Joanna's right about the poetics) - and my
students have liked them.
Tons of people have suggested Prisoners of the American Dream to me and I
will get to it someday, I really will...
The first of the variably ecoapocalyptic books - 2000's Ecology of Fear: Los
Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster - received high marks from critical
sociology and geography grad students I knew and I read some quite positive
reviews, but I'd put that fourth.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>wrote:


> At 12:57 PM 3/16/2011, Andy wrote:
>
>  I'm more curious about Davis's work on urban life.
>>
>
> The classic is City of Quartz.  Then fast forward to Planet of Slums.
>  Here's an interview on bldgblog from 2006:
>
> http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/interview-with-mike-davis-part-1.html
>
>
>

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Alan P. Rudy
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