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FOR THE first time in history, a majority of the world’s population will soon live in cities. But large parts of this…
Mike Davis
Named a Macarthur Fellow in 1998, he was also honored for distinguished achievement in nonfiction writing this past fall by the Lannan Literary Foundation. Professor Davis is the author of more than 20 books and more than 100 book chapters and essays in the scholarly and elite popular press. His scholarly interest span urban studies, the built environment, economic history and social movements. Perhaps his best know book, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles was named a best book in urban politics by the American Political Science Association and won the Isaac Deutscher Award from the London School of Economics and has been translated into eight languages.
His short hair and mustache are heavily flecked with grey, but he still retains the stocky, powerful build of a butcher’s son,…
[See part 1] The CIA’s Car Bomb University (the 1980s) “The CIA officers that Yousef worked with closely impressed upon him one…
Buda’s Wagon (1920) ‘You have shown no pity to us! We will do likewise. We will dynamite you! — Anarchist warning (1919)…
A few blocks from the badly flooded and still-closed campus of Dillard University, a wind-bent street sign announces the intersection of Humanity…
In a recent email to Louisiana officials, FEMA curtly turned down the state’s request for funding to notify displaced residents that they…
The genesis of two category-five hurricanes (Katrina and Rita) in a row over the Gulf of Mexico is an unprecedented and troubling…
We recently spent a week in New Orleans and Southern Louisiana interviewing relief workers, community activists, urban planners, artists, and neighborhood folks.…
THE CATASTROPHE on the Gulf Coast was the most widely anticipated “natural disaster†in U.S. history. Yet the response of the U.S.…
Deadly avian flu is on the wing. The first bar-headed geese have already arrived at their wintering grounds near the Cauvery River…