Placing words : symbols, space, and the city /
Mitchell, William J. 1944-2010,
Placing words : symbols, space, and the city / William J. Mitchell. - ix, 224 pages ; 21 cm
Includes index.
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.
0262633221 9780262633222
2005049618
Communication in architecture
Cities and towns
Public spaces
Information technology--Social aspects
Architecture, Modern--20th century
Architecture, Modern--21st century
NA2584 / .M58 2005
720.1
Placing words : symbols, space, and the city / William J. Mitchell. - ix, 224 pages ; 21 cm
Includes index.
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.
0262633221 9780262633222
2005049618
Communication in architecture
Cities and towns
Public spaces
Information technology--Social aspects
Architecture, Modern--20th century
Architecture, Modern--21st century
NA2584 / .M58 2005
720.1