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Mike Davis (1946–2022) fue un historiador, teórico urbano y activista estadounidense. Conocido por su enfoque marxista y su crítica a la urbanización contemporánea, escribió obras influyentes como 'Ecology of Fear' y 'Planet of Slums'.
Known for: City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World, Planet Of Slums
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles es un estudio crítico de la estructura social, económica y política de Los Ángeles. Mike Davis analiza cómo el poder, la arquitectura y la planific...
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
This book examines the devastating famines that struck India, China, and Brazil during the late nineteenth century, linking them to the global climatic events of El Niño and the political economy of i...
Planet Of Slums
Planet of Slums es un estudio crítico sobre el crecimiento explosivo de los asentamientos informales urbanos en el mundo en desarrollo. Mike Davis examina cómo la urbanización global ha producido vast...
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The City as Theme Park
Los Angeles has always been less a city than a spectacle. From the earliest days of Hollywood, its urban identity has been shaped by an industry devoted to producing dreams. I conceived of the city’s cultural mythology as an immense theme park—an engineered experience designed to obscure underlying ...
From City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Fortress Los Angeles
If Hollywood metaphorically builds illusions, the city’s architects construct tangible walls. In *City of Quartz*, I coined the term “fortress architecture” to describe how Los Angeles’s built environment embodies its politics of fear. The city has learned to design itself defensively: malls fortifi...
From City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Global Climatic Context
To understand the disasters that struck in the late nineteenth century, we must first grasp the planetary background. The El Niño–Southern Oscillation, a periodic warming of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, disrupts rainfall across vast regions of the Earth. It is not new; its traces appear in...
From Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
The Victorian World Economy
In the nineteenth century, the world economy was reorganized under British hegemony. Railways, telegraphs, and steam navigation knit continents into a web of trade. For imperial administrators, this network promised progress and prosperity. For subsistence farmers, it meant exposure. India’s traditi...
From Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Historical context: Examination of post-World War II urban growth and the shift from industrial to informal economies in developing nations
After World War II, the promise of development seemed universal. Nations emerging from colonialism envisioned modernization through industrial growth. Cities were to be the heart of that transformation: centers of labor, education, and citizenship. Yet by the late 20th century, this dream had begun ...
From Planet Of Slums
Globalization and neoliberalism: Analysis of how structural adjustment programs and global market forces have accelerated urban poverty
The global turn toward neoliberalism in the late 1970s and 1980s marked the decisive moment in the story I tell. Structural adjustment programs, enforced by institutions like the IMF and World Bank, demanded austerity, privatization, and trade liberalization as conditions for loans. These policies d...
From Planet Of Slums
About Mike Davis
Mike Davis (1946–2022) fue un historiador, teórico urbano y activista estadounidense. Conocido por su enfoque marxista y su crítica a la urbanización contemporánea, escribió obras influyentes como 'Ecology of Fear' y 'Planet of Slums'.
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