Index

In the First Place	                             1
Text and the City	                             21
1 Do We Still Need Skyscrapers?                      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	                                             215