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Los Angeles, the City of Angels, has also been described as the city of dreams and the city of hope. In an almost prophetic tale of conflict and decline, Mike Davis, in Ecology of Hope: Los Angeles and The Imagination of Disaster, argues that Los Angeles is a city poised for disaster. It is Davis' developed belief that Los Angeles is a city that was constructed in a manner that lends itself to susceptibility to disaster, and promotes a lifestyle that is completely unprepared for these types of natural responses to urban development. More particularly, the major changes that land developers, business leaders and urban planners have made to the region determine the vulnerability of the city to natural disaster. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Mike Davis, in Ecology of Hope: Los Angeles and The Imagination of Disaster, argues that Los Angeles is a city poised for disaster. It is Davis developed belief
that Los Angeles is a city that was constructed in a manner that lends itself to susceptibility to disaster, and promotes a lifestyle that is completely unprepared for these types
of natural responses to urban development. More particularly, the major changes that land developers, business leaders and urban planners have made to the region determine the vulnerability of the
city to natural disaster. In the beginning of Chapter 1: The Dialect of Ordinary Disaster, Davis quotes Wesley Marx, in his book Acts of God, Acts of Man (1977):
"[California], often to its own surprise, has developed a style of urbanization that not only amplifies natural hazards, but reactivates dormant hazards and creates hazards where none existed..." (7).
This perspective is closely associated with Davis central belief and his acknowledgment of a long-standing pattern of development in a manner that opens the city to the impacts of
natural disaster. In acknowledging this, Davis also argues a few elements that are often negated in the process of urban planning, including the assertion that seasonal changes and patterns
of natural development are interrupted through the introduction of the urban landscape, but that nature inherently responds to the changes that have been made. Initially, Davis describes the natural conditions
of the region, suggesting that without the hand of man, nature goes through a very systematic process that is "rarely catastrophic" (9). In fact, Davis argues that the progression
of natural elements is a process that is often orderly and goes through very timely and directed repetitive patterns, and the uninterrupted flow of the energy of nature determines the
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