Section 2 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

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Chapter four of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles is aptly titled Fortress L.A. The author, Mike Davis uses this chapter to explain the recent erosion of civil liberties due to the emergence of many more security cameras in the downtown area of Los Angeles.  The writing "The privatization of the architectural public realm, moreover, is shadowed by parallel restructurings of electronic space, as heavily policed, pay-access 'information orders', elite data bases and subscription cable services appropriate parts of the invisible agora." is an indication of the many competing factors involved in the erosion of civil liberties of individuals in the downtown Los Angeles area.  Privatization of public spaces has proven to be a hot topic in modern urban planning circles.

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