In his most provocative writing yet, the radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, the site of a perpetual battle waged within cities and against nature. Davis examines themes of urban life today - white flight, housing and job segregation and discrimination - and looks at areas he calls "national sacrifice zones", military landscapes that simulated warfare and arms production have rendered uninhabitable. Davis begins his apocalyptically inflected tour with a trip to New York's Ground Zero and to the diabolic miracle of Las Vegas.
- ISBN10 1565847652
- ISBN13 9781565847651
- Publish Date 14 November 2002 (first published 1 January 2002)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The New Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English