Note: Davis "is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California." --Wikipedia French and Spanish editions disambiguate him as historien and sociólogo. As of 2004 Davis taught urban theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. --from a major feature story by Susan Salter Reynolds, LA Times 2004-03-03 pE9, "Mike Davis makes a mammoth shift: The iconoclastic chronicler of Southern California goes on an Arctic adventure in his first kids book"