City of Quartz

City of Quartz:
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
First edition
AuthorMike Davis
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHaymarket
SubjectHistory
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherVerso Books
Publication date
October 17, 1990
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages472 pp
ISBN978-0860913030
OCLC22118422

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles is a 1990 book by American author Mike Davis proposing a theory that contemporary Los Angeles has been shaped by different powerful forces in its history.