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A rare opportunity to hear MacArthur fellow Mike Davis, visionary essayist, prophet of ecological and urban doom, and author of City of Quartz, the seminal study of the architecture of America's west coast and the post modernist philosophies his book describes. Davis gives a one-off, illustrated talk about the paranoid dreams of the desert palaces of Las Vegas and of the landscape of control and power enacted by the planners of 21st century American cities. Davis's new book Dead Cities: A Natural History in which he explores the future of urban life in the face of catastrophic terrorism, global warming, and runaway capitalism, is published this month.