To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s adulatory column on “prophet” Mike Davis is exactly ... the blistering takedown of Davis’ magnum opus, “City of Quartz,” by former Times columnist ...

The book he’s best known for is City of Quartz, a dense ... was broadly right in his polemic—as Angelenos, we live in Mike Davis’s world—even if he was slightly trolling.

Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not… A critical review of Mike Davis' influential book on the huge growth in squatter settlements around ...

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano's adulatory column on "prophet" Mike Davis is exactly ... read the blistering takedown of Davis' magnum opus, "City of Quartz," by former Times columnist and ...