Part 1: Paradigm Islands Part 2: Frames 1. Learning from Manhattan, Designing the Frivolous: Rem Koolhaas from 'Delirious' to 'Junkspace' 2 . Building on Tension, Learning from Venice: Manfredo Tafuri's History Between renovatio and Continuity Part 3: Makings 3. Manhattan Grid: the City as a Script 4. Manhattan Surfacing: Central Park 5. From Grid to 'Grid Effect' 6. Venice Traces: Grids, Mats, Tentacles 7. Venice Impossible: Representations of the Dynamic Part 4: Readings 8. Manhattan: Performance, Artificial Chorality and Exhibitionism 9. Venice: Normative Chorality, Masks, Tenderness Part 5: Modern(s) 10. Le Corbusier and Manhattan 11. Le Corbusier and Venice Part 6: Contemporaries 1 2. The City as Event: Bernard Tschumi in Manhattan 13. Topology to Diagram: Peter Eisenman Between Venice and Manhattan 14. The City as Diagram. Gianugo Polesello's Venice Part 7: Representations Part 8: Islands