Title:
Placing words : symbols, space, and the city / William J. Mitchell.
Main Entry:
Mitchell, William J. (William John), 1944-
Publisher:
MIT Press,
Publication Date:
c2005.
Publication Place:
Cambridge, Mass. :
ISBN:
0262633221 (pbk)
Subject:
Communication in architecture.
Cities and towns.
Public spaces.
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.
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