Talk:City of Quartz

"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)

City of Quartz was not originally intended as a Ph.D. dissertation -- there is no factual basis for this claim, and Davis himself has never said that. Jonwiener (talk) 00:22, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

The statement mentioned here isn't in the article anymore, and it looks pretty neutral at this point. Can the neutrality tag be removed? Three white leopards (talk) 02:25, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

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 their courses. MWS (talk) 19:53, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Title = Word Play?

This comes into my mind: 1. City of Quarts/cuardos, like city of squares, typical Spanish city layout... 2. City of Quartz = City of [sand] Stone. 3. City built on/from Sand.

Any common agreement here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.176.42.230 (talk) 07:30, 5 June 2014 (UTC)