Placing words: symbols, space, and the city/

Main Author: Mitchell, William John, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, c2005
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Table of Contents:
  • Do we still need skyscrapers?
  • After 9/11
  • Poison ivy
  • The cobblestones and the beach
  • Guernica II
  • Beyond the city limits
  • Palladio in the piazza
  • Things that think
  • Twilight at the drive -in
  • Smackdown in cyberspce
  • Smelling the brie
  • An eye for an eye
  • What does a pixel want to be?
  • Elegy for a G4
  • The wireless groves
  • Vagabond shoes
  • Manolos
  • A neutron walks into a bar
  • Gauguin's house in paradise
  • Architectural principles of the torture chamber
  • King of bling
  • The theatrics of terror
  • Crash and burn
  • The spiderman cometh
  • My two cents
  • The munchkin modulor
  • Less is more is back
  • Desperate urbanists
  • Homo electronicus
  • After the tsunami
  • Gated community - Camp cupcake blues
  • Carriage return.