City of Quartz

By looking at our past, we can better prepare for our future. Those countries that do not understand their history and their past are condemned to repeat it.This book is effective in utilizing this very personal account of an area with which the author is well acquainted. It traces the areas colonialization and conquerers to the evolution of becoming the most populated city on the West Coast, to the Los Angeles of the future.
Los Angeles has always been billed as the promised land in which to truly develop the almighty American dream. It's been through the manipulation and wholesale exploitation of this dream that sells homes, real estate, a lifestyle. Corporations and companies have bank rolled it.

In the end, like the deveiling by ...