City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Essential Mike Davis)
megalopolis endured three of the ten most costly national disasters since the Civil War.
Mike Davis • Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
As fire ecologist Richard Minnich has said, "You can send an arsonist to Death Valley and he'll never be arrested."
Mike Davis • Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast Mike Davis : LA IMC
Information in cities is both structural and the driver of temporal change.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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Things were different in the city. The crucial factor in the building of public works on Long Island was space, vast, endless tracts of uncluttered openness; in the city the crucial factor was lack of space and the fact that space was not merely filled but filled with people, people with their endlessly intertwined, hopelessly snarled tangles of as
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In this group of chapters on decline and regeneration, I intend to dwell on several powerful forces that can influence, for good or for ill, the growth of diversity and vitality in cities, once an area is not crippled by lack of one or more of the four conditions necessary for generating diversity. These forces, in the form that they work for ill,
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