Mike Davis

American writer, urban theorist, political activist, and historian from Southern California (1946–2022)

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Born: 1946
Died: 2022
Works: 52

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City of Quartz
The grit beneath the glitter
Miyelo
Planeta favela
LA was just the beginning

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1926-05-26
Active to: 1991-09-28

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Listeners: 895
Total plays: 5,034

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STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,115x
Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 45,551x
<tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,714x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,923x
User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 31,144x

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Mike Davis was named a Macarthur Fellow in 1998, he was also honored for distinguished achievement in nonfiction writing this past fall by the Lannan Literary Foundation. Professor Davis is the author of more than 20 books and more than 100 book chapters and essays in the scholarly and elite popular press. His scholarly interest span urban studies, the built environment, economic history and social movements. Perhaps his best know book, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles was named a best book in urban politics by the American Political Science Association and won the Isaac Deutscher Award from the London School of Economics and has been translated into eight languages

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Instance of: human
Given name: Mike
Family name: Davis
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Fontana
Place of death: San Diego
Occupation: theorist
Educated at: Reed College
Employer: Southern California Institute of Architecture
Languages spoken: English language
Field of work: economic history
Image: Mike Davis with Levi Kingston.jpg

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date of birth: 1946-03-10
floruit: 2004-01-01
has works in the collection: International Institute of Social History
described at URL: profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/mdavis
date of death: 2022-10-25
manner of death: natural causes
cause of death: esophageal cancer
birth name: Michael Ryan Davis
name in native language: Mike Davis
influenced by: Karl Marx
Commons category: Mike Davis (writer)

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