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"And rethink the metropolis is just what Lerup does. He moves from contemplation of the form and philosophical implications of the Pantheon to a discussion of how Levittown residents seek and create community. The result is a work with profound practical implications. Unlike the many who view s...
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Cambridge :
MIT Press,
[2000]
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Table of Contents:
- The Metropolis: A Portfolio of Images
- Tafuri's Smile
- The Wanderer, Authority, and Doublespace
- The Straying Gaze
- Stones at Rest
- The Fye in the Center
- The Face of Power
- The Doublespace
- The Suburban Metropolis
- Stim and Dross: Rethinking the Metropolis
- Houston, 28th Floor. At the Window
- Megashape
- Intention
- The Plane, the Riders, and Air Space
- Fields
- Sprawl
- Oceanic Grammar
- Entortung
- Stim and Dross
- Stimulators
- Stimdross
- Sparta's Revenge
- The Other City
- Virgin Fields
- A Certain Distance
- The Protean Field
- Radical Mobility
- Voids and Vapors
- Architecture Reconsidered
- The End of the Architectural Promenade: A Portfolio of Images
- Distraction versus Concentration
- Planned Assaults
- Ambiguity and Action
- The Metropolitan Architect
- Architects' Hands
- The Architect's House
- The Architect in the Metropolis
- Vehicular Behavior: A Portfolio of Images
- Design Machines
- Mechanisms of Closeness
- Household Vehicles
- Toward Fusion
- The Simple House
- The Frontier
- The Middle Landscape
- Frontiers
- Museum Geography
- Frontier Ecology
- Architecture and Biota.