Davis, Mike — Dead Cities

New York, The New Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the two-tone, blue cloth over boards, blue cloth-backed, with a bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. The dust jacket features a reproduction of Ludwig Meidner's painting "Apocalyptic Landscape," quite evocative. From the rear jacket blurb, "The storm is here, crushed dam is no longer holding, the savage seas come inland with a hop. Thus Expressionist poet Jacob van Hoddis warned in 1913 of the death of Berlin and other great cities. As Mike Davis shows in this extraordinary book, prophecies of urban doom too often come true. Writing by the light of burning cities  Berlin in 1945, L. A. In 1992 and New York in 2001  he explores the future of urban life in the face of catastrophic terrorism, global warming, and a runaway capitalism. his unifying theme  and challenge to conventional theory  is the radical contingency of the metropolis." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii [3], 2-432 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,