Notes on Mike Davis, City of QuartzNotes on Mike Davis, “Fortress L.A.” from City of Quartz “Fortress L.A.” is about a destruction of public space that derives from and reinforces a loss of public-spiritedness. “The universal and ineluctable consequence of this crusade to secure the city is the destruction of accessible public space” (226). the privatization of the architectural public realm; a parallel privatization of electronic
