Preface
I. Authority
1. I Will Learn You Architecture!
2. More Specifically, Everything!
3. Let Me Finish!
4. Four Walls and a Roof
II. Default by Design
5. Bloody Fools! The Story of Pimlico School, 1970–2010
6. Architektur ohne Eigenschaften
7. Neufert: The Exceptional Pursuit of the Norm
8. Reference without a Source: The Appeal of Atlanta Airport
9. The Inevitable Box
III. Found Causes
10. Spaceship Earth
11. Mies en Scène
12. Intruders: How Smart Technology Infiltrates Architecture
13. “Public” Space
14. From CIAM to Cyberspace: Architecture and the Community
15. With the Masses: The Architecture of Participation
IV. Trial and Error
16. Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: Part One
17. London
18. How Is Denmark?
19. Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: Part Two
20. Facing the Facts
21. Naukograd
22. A Spanish Tender
23. On Hold
V. Powers That Be
24. After the End of History
25. The Other Truth
26. Socialist in Content, Realist in Form
27. The Descendant: A Conversation with Xenia Adjoubei, Nikita Khrushchev’s Great-Granddaughter
28. Undesirable Work Styles
29. A Benevolent Dictator with Taste
30. Royal Approval
31. His Architect
32. A Property Developer for President
VI. Megalopoli(tic)s
33. A Faustian Bargain
34. Amanhã
35. Smart Cities of the Future
36. The Sum of All Isms
37. Dear Mr. Barber
38. At Your Service: Ten Steps to Becoming a Successful Urban Consultant
39. Rankings
VII. Progress
40. Coup de Grâce: Pruitt-Igoe Revisited
41. The Century That Never Happened
42. In Memoriam: A Photo Essay
43. The Captive Globe
44. Remains of a Brave New World
Notes
Acknowledgments
Chapters Previously Published
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