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In his most brilliantly syncretic writing yet, radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, where a ceaseless battle is being waged both within cities and against nature. Using environmental science as his frame of understanding, Davis examines themes of urban life today—white flight, deindustrialization, housing and job segregation and discrimination, and federal policy—and looks at areas he calls "national sacrifice zones"—military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have rendered uninhabitable. From New York's Ground Zero to Las Vegas, with wit, compassion and an eye for the absurd and unjust, Davis has begun a long overdue dialogue on urban science in this prophetic new book. Now in paperback!
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