Back
Mike Davis: Dead Cities (Paperback, 2024, Haymarket) No rating

For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital—and his prescient …

From Crete and Cornwall to Montana and Hawai'i, the gentrification of wild places (like that of urban centers) is always a theft of tradition, an uprooting of community. Eventually all the world's ruggedly beautiful landscapes of toil and struggle seem destined to be repackaged as "heritage," wrenched from unemployed locals and sold off to scenery-loving burghers fleeing the cities.

Dead Cities by  (Page 116)