Rallies in support of civil rights aroused in a young beatnik a keen awareness of the fight against the establishment, but they also soon made him see that more than direct actions, it was important to build a critical political thinking that would l
Davis, who died of complications from esophageal cancer yesterday at 76, served as both the reluctant prognosticator-in-chief for L.A. and a guide to the overlapping urban crises that now cascade across U.S. cities with alarming frequency. In his imm
Escrito en 2000, Urbanismo mágico, de Mike Davis, no ha sido publicado en español hasta 2012, precisamente por la misma editorial que, en traducción de Rafael Reig, publicara City of Quartz. Es triste constatar nuevamente el retraso en la edición en
La década de los noventa ha sido muy prolífica en textos sobre la nueva realidad urbana, especialmente desde Estados Unidos, donde parece hallarse el laboratorio de las nuevas distopías que marcan la ciudad del tercer milenio. En este intento se enma
