Mike Davis
Sign in to saveAmerican writer, urban theorist, political activist, and historian from Southern California (1946–2022)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1946
- Died
- 2022
- Works
- 52
Top works
- City of Quartz
- The grit beneath the glitter
- Miyelo
- Planeta favela
- LA was just the beginning
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-05-26
- Active to
- 1991-09-28
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 895
- Total plays
- 5,034
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,748x
- Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 43,586x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,067x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,358x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 29,797x
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Described at
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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Wikidata facts
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- Mike Davis with Levi Kingston.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1946-03-10
- floruit
- 2004-01-01
- described at URL
- profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/mdavis
- date of death
- 2022-10-25
- birth name
- Michael Ryan Davis
- name in native language
- Mike Davis
- Commons category
- Mike Davis (writer)
Sources (8)
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Available in 14 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- العربية
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Catalan
- Egyptian Arabic
- Greek
- Nederlands
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- Wu Chinese
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