Placing Words - Table of Contents

September 2005
5 3/8 x 8, 234 pp., 1 illus.
$18.95/£11.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-63322-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-63322-2

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Placing Words
Symbols, Space, and the City
William J. Mitchell

	In the First Place Sample Chapter - Download PDF (65 KB)	1

	Text and the City	21

1	Do We Still Need Skyscrapers? Sample Chapter - Download PDF (39 KB)	23

2	After 9/11	29

3	Poison Ivy	35

4	The Cobblestones and the Beach	41

5	Guernica II	45

6	Beyond the City Limits	49

7	Palladio in the Piazza	55

8	Things that Think	61

9	Twilight at the Drive-In	65

10	Smackdown in Cyberspace	71

11	Smelling the Brie	77

12	An Eye for an Eye	83

13	What Does a Pixel Want To Be?	87

14	Elegy for a G4	93

15	The Wireless Groves	99

16	Vagabond Shoes	105

17	Manolos	111

18	A Neutron Walks Into a Bar	117

19	Gauguin's House in Paradise	123

20	Architectural Principles of the Torture Chamber	129

21	King of Bling	135

22	The Theatrics of Terror	141

23	Crash and Burn	147

24	The Spiderman Cometh	153

25	My Two Cents	159

26	The Munchkin Modulor	165

27	Less Is More Is Back	171

28	Desperate Urbanists	175

29	Homo Electronicus	181

30	After the Tsunami	187

31	Gated Community	193

32	Camp Cupcake Blues	199

	Carriage Return	205

	Acknowledgments	213

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (47 KB)	215

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