All Over the Map
Writing on Buildings and Cities
1st Edition
Published on 11. February 2013
503 pages
978-1-78168-058-2 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The Second-Greatest Generation
- 2 Herb's Content
- 3 Notes on a Tennessee Town
- 4 After the Fall
- 5 What Remains
- 6 First Response
- 7 The Center Cannot Hold
- 8 Six Months
- 9 Thinking Inside the Box
- 10 The Dimensions of Aura
- 11 The World Peace Dome
- 12 The Lotus
- 13 Security
- 14 A Brief for Reconstruction
- 15 Riff on Rem
- 16 Herbert's List
- 17 Splitsville, USA: Why the Practice and Teaching of Urban Design Is Coming Apart
- 18 Urbanism Is Politics
- 19 On SITE
- 20 Who Decides?
- 21 No Island Is an Island
- 22 Obstructed Vision
- 23 Remembering Doug Michels
- 24 The Avant-Garde in Time of War
- 25 And Then There Were Two
- 26 Density Noodle
- 27 Caveat Competitor
- 28 (S)Truth and Consequences
- 29 Entering the Building
- 30 Urban Warfare: A Tour of the Battlefield
- 31 Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, Cars, Dolphins, and Architecture
- 32 Displacement
- 33 Crippled in the City
- 34 The Limits of Tolerance
- 35 When Good Architects Design Bad Buildings
- 36 Advice to Critics
- 37 Liberty Square
- 38 Bush in Space
- 39 Architecture and Revolution
- 40 What Can You Say About The Pritzker?
- 41 A Trip to Tijuana
- 42 Seven Chairs
- 43 A Letter to Bob
- 44 Into the Woods
- 45 Cardinal Points
- 46 My Last Philippic
- 47 Gulf States
- 48 People Who Live in Urban Glass Houses
- 49 Ten Better Places for a Football Stadium
- 50 Finding a Dramatic Home for a Political Football
- 51 The Great Mall of New York
- 52 The Bounding Mayne
- 53 Drowning in the Gulf Again
- 54 Sincerely, Jane Jacobs
- 55 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?
- 56 Stuyvesant Town
- 57 How I Invented Asia
- 58 Everybody's a Critic!
- 59 Go Down Moses!
- 60 The Jungle Urban: Welcome to Petropolis
- 61 Trumped Again
- 62 Asian Alterity: What's the Diference?
- 63 The End(s) of Urban Design
- 64 Big Brother Is Charging You
- 65 West Side Story
- 66 An Architectural Tourist on Omotesando
- 67 Learning from the Hutong of Beijing and Lilong of Shanghai
- 68 Covering the Territory: Three Films by Amos Gitai
- 69 Bucky and Me
- 70 Three Freedoms
- 71 The Plot against Architecture
- 72 A Letter to President Obama
- 73 A Cut through the City
- 74 Trouble in Paradise
- 75 Discipline and Punish
- 76 Eutopia Now!
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Books by Michael Sorkin
