Talk:City of Quartz

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[edit] "criticism by many"

While many have criticized Davis, to my knowledge, the only person who criticized him on the basis of footnotes that he claimed did not support the information in the book was one Brady Westwater, real estate developer in Malibu, who was quite upset to read the chapter from Ecology of Fear, "Let Malibu Burn," when it was published in the LA Weekly. As a real estate developer in Malibu, Westwater had plenty of economic interest in refuting Davis' work, and his attack on the footnotes seems to have been since generally recognized by actual scholars as petty and mostly inaccurate. I'm not sure the statement in here is accurate, but I hesitate to change it to "criticism by one real estate developer" or something similar. Thoughts? --csloat 01:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No Ph.D.

UCLA may not have granted him a doctorate, but they did give him an honor of a different kind --- they use the book in one of their courses. I picked up my own copy that way. MWS 20:03, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

In one of their courses??? I haven't taken a course yet in which the book is not at least parenthetically referenced in the course material. One has to remember after all, that many of Davis' cohorts still teach at UCLA, and are particularly receptive to the force of his analysis.