Magical Urbanism - Latinos Reinvent the Us City

Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams AwardA CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC, Magical Urbanism focuses on how Latinos are attempting to translate their urban demographic ascendancy into effective social power. Mike Davis chronicles the Dickensian underworld of day labor in New York, tracks the development of new ecologies and levels of development along the border, and examines the shifting realities of life and work for Latinos in US cities. The cosmopolitan result of the Latinization of America's cities "is a rich, constantly evolving" culture that has the potential, argues Davis, to become a radical new American counterculture.

About the author

A former meat cutter and truck driver, as well as a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award, Mike Davis's many books include Set the Night on Fire, Planet of Slums, and Late Victorian Holocausts. He lives in San Diego.

Product details

• Authors: Mike Davis, Davis Mike
• Assisted by: Román de la Campa (Foreword)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2024
• EAN: 9781804294734
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-473-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Haymarket; The Essential Mike Davis
• Subjects: Travel; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban & municipal planning, United States of America, USA, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy