TY - BOOK AU - Mitchell,William J. TI - Placing words: symbols, space, and the city SN - 0262633221 AV - NA2584 .M58 2005 U1 - 720.1 22 PY - 2005///] CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Communication in architecture KW - Cities and towns KW - Public spaces KW - Information technology KW - Social aspects KW - Architecture, Modern KW - 20th century KW - 21st century N1 - 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 ER -