عنوان

Dead cities, and other tales /

شابک

1565847652

شابک

1565848446

شابک

9781565847651

شابک

9781565848443

عنوان اصلي

Dead cities, and other tales /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Mike Davis.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Distributed by W.W. Norton,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2002.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

viii, 432 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

21 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

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.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"In the first part of Dead Cities, the horror of lower Manhattan's falling skyscrapers (already anticipated by Welles, Lorca, and Dos Passos) is conjugated with Las Vegas' delirious delight in blowing up its landmark hotels. The Glitterdome's insatiable drinking spree, moreover, has become a symbol for the urban West's approaching showdown with Mother Nature. But in other parts of Marlboro country the apocalypse has already happened. The eerie Pentagon deserts of Nevada and Utah - with their destroyed landscapes, "doomtowns," and leukemic children - are a backdrop to the story of the New Deal's last great public works project the incineration of the cities of Germany and Japan." "Likewise, the wasteland flanks of downtown L.A. are a stage for tales of infinite greed, urban neglect, political scandal, neighborhood-level ethnic cleansing, and, ultimately, the firestorm of 1992. In the essays on "extreme science," Davis explains how the "neocatastrophist" revolution in earth sciences might become a paradigm for understanding the violent punctuated evolution of big cities. The title essay is an astonishing autopsy of metropolis dead on a slab, with reflections on "bomber ecology" and "ghetto geomorphology." The final chapter, with its accounts of Montreal and Auckland temporarily brought to their knees by ice storms and heat, warns that our urban infrastructures are as little prepared to deal with climate change as with car bombs and hijacked airliners."--Jacket.

موضوع مستند نشده

Cities and towns-- United States, Case studies.

موضوع مستند نشده

Disasters-- United States, Case studies.

موضوع مستند نشده

Nature-- Effect of human beings on.

موضوع مستند نشده

Social conflict-- United States, Case studies.

موضوع مستند نشده

Urban ecology (Sociology)-- United States, Case studies.

موضوع مستند نشده

Urban policy-- United States, Case studies.

موضوع مستند نشده

Cities and towns.

موضوع مستند نشده

Disasters.

موضوع مستند نشده

katastrophē

موضوع مستند نشده

Nature-- Effect of human beings on.

موضوع مستند نشده

Social conflict.

موضوع مستند نشده

Stadt

موضوع مستند نشده

Urban ecology (Sociology)

موضوع مستند نشده

Urban policy.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

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کد سيستم

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مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Davis, Mike,1946-

تاريخ عمليات

20200824154036.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y