Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis

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Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

"Los Angeles has become the nation's poster child of calamity. But as Mike Davis brilliantly and devastatingly shows, L.A.'s wounds are largely self-inflicted. ... Davis demonstrates how nature has not decimated L.A. as much as L.A.'s developers and power-brokers have. His genius lies in divining the connections between social injustice and ecological distress ..." —Susan Faludi, author of Backlash

In this book, Mike Davis unravels the secret political history of disaster, real and imaginary, in Southern California. He exposes the deep complicity between social injustice and perceptions of natural disorder. Arguing that paranoia about nature obscures the fact that Los Angeles has deliberately put itself in harm's way, Davis reveals how market-driven urbanization has for generations transgressed against environmental common sense. And he shows that the floods, fires, and earthquakes reaped by the city were avoidable tragedies.

Rich with detail, bold and original, Ecology of Fear is a gripping reconnaissance into the urban future.

Vintage Books, Softcover, 496pp

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