Los Angeles Desserts for Eight Readings

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First meeting
Monday, December 15, 5pm in the Redlands Room (inside Library, upstairs)
Mike Davis, "Fortress L.A." chapter from City of Quartz
Saskia Sassen, Introduction to Globalization and its Discontents
Saskia Sassen, Preface & Chapter 1 from the second edition of The Global City
Second meeting
Wednesday, March 17, 4 pm in the Peppers Seminar room
Josh Sides, "Race and Housing in Postwar Los Angeles" and "Epilogue"
Dana Cuff, "Chavez Ravine and the end of Public Housing" (short chapters 44-49)