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Dead cities, and other tales

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LCC: HT123 .D43 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

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"In these wide ranging, incisive, and hauntingly relevant essays, Davis asks us to consider what we would find if we put a microscope to the ruins of Metropolis, and provides a riveting account of the disasters--natural, man-made, and those (as in the case of climate calamity) where the distinction is impossible to make--that he finds on the other end. He begins his examination by sifting through the rubble of the twin towers in the wake of 9/11, presciently identifying the seeds of war already germinating in the scorched soil of ground zero, and closes by considering how little prepared our hollowed out urban infrastructure is to deal with shocks of any kind, be they from car bombs or ice storms. In between we are treated to tours of blasted wastelands where American generals built and destroyed replicas of Berlin, glimpses of Las Vegas's penchant for annihilating its own best-known landmarks, and other riveting tales of the dialectic between nature and the city. Dead Cities, written over twenty years ago, abounds with prophecies fulfilled, contains echoes of our current moment where conspiracies abound and anxieties drown out official celebrations of prosperity, and offers dreams of alternative paths not taken."--Amazon.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Preface : Flames of New York -- Part I : Neon west -- 'White people are only a bad dream...' ; Ecocide in Marlboro Country ; Berlin's skeleton in Utah's closet ; Las Vegas versus nature ; Tsunami memories -- Part II : Holy ghosts -- Pentecostal earthquake ; Hollywood's dark shadow ; Infinite game ; Subway that ate L.A. ; New industrial peonage -- Part III : Riot city -- 'As bad as the H-bomb' ; Burning all illusions ; Who killed L.A.? A political autopsy ; Fear and loathing in Compton ; Dante's choice -- Part IV : Extreme science -- Cosmic dancers on history's stage? ; Dead cities : a natural history ; Strange times begin.

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Davis, Mike, 1946-2022. Dead cities, and other tales

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:12:45.448593+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 24031888

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
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  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
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