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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lerup, Lars (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.