Dead Cities by Mike Davis - ISBN 9781565848443 - New Press 2002

book
http://books.google.com/books?id=YFSPQAAACAAJ&pg=PA

Motivation

Recommended by Audrey after enjoying her previous recommendation on a similar topic L Architecture De Survie.

Pre-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

  • Preface: The Flames of New York
  • Part I Neon West
  • Part II Holy Ghosts
  • Part III Riot City
    • "Meme si on imagine les villes comme des <<parcours fleches>> assorties d'une myriade de sondes permettant de detecter et de contrer l'erosion, les interfaces fondamentales avec la nature - l'etat du parc de logements, celui des conduits dl'alimentation en eau et d'evacuation des dechets, le controle des especes cmmensales porteuses de maladie (rats ou mouches), etc. - apparaissent toujours en desequilibre." (p75 of the french translation)
    • "Jefferies prit un plaisir non dissimule a rappeler a ses lecteurs que seule <<une pellicule de verre, fragile, fine et transparente>> separait la civilisation de l'etat sauvage: un detail souligne par l'imagine recurrente d'un iceberg flottant dans la Tamise." (p84 of the french translation)
      • cf Ergo Proxy but overall a lot of anime and manga with domed cities
  • Part IV Extreme Science

See also

Overall remarks and questions

  • having a hard time understand its structure
    • no introduction
    • seems to be a series of independent essays but even in each essay the paragraph are very lousily connected
  • the french translation has a table of content with a different order

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

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Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

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