Acknowledgments 11
INTRODUCTION Body and City 15
1. The Passive Body 16
2. The Plan of the Book 21
3. A Personal Note 26
PART ONE
POWERS OF THE VOICE AND EYE
CHAPTERONE Nakedness 31
The Citizen's Body in Perikles' Athens
1. The Citizen's Body 35
PERIKLES' ATHENS BODY HEAT .
The Citizen's Voice 52
SPACES TO SPEAK THE HEAT OF WORDS
CHAPTER TWO The Cloak of Darkness 68
The Protections of Ritual in Athens
1. The Powers of Cold Bodies 70
LOGOS AND MYTHOS
THE THESMOPHORIA • THE ADONIA
2. The Suffering Body 82
CHAPTER THREE The Obsessive Image 87
Place and Time in Hadrian's Rome
1. Look and Believe
THE FEARS OF AN EMPEROR • HADRIAN MURDERS APOLLODORUS 92
TEATRUM MUNDI
2. Look and Obey 101
THE GEOMETRY O CITY • THE ROI
3. The Impossible Obsession 121
THE GEOMETRY OF THE BODY 124
THE CREATION OF A ROMAN CITY • THE ROMAN FORUM • THE ROMAN HOUSE
CHAPTER FOUR Time in the Body
Early Christians in Rome 124
1. The Alien Body of Christ 125
ANTINOUS AND CHRIST • LOGOS IS LIGHT
2. Christian Places 134
THE CHRISTIAN HOUSE • THE FIRST CHURCHES
3. Nietzsche's Hawks and Lambs 146
PART TWO
MOVEMENTS OF THE HEART
CHAPTER FIVE Community 151
The Paris of jehan de Chelles
"Stadt Luft macht frei"
2. The Compassionate Body 159
GALEN'S ARS MEDICA • HENRI DE MONDEVILLE'S DISCOVERY OF SYNCOPE
3. The Christian Community 170
PALACE, CATHEDRAL, AND ABBEY • CONFESSOR, ALMONER, AND GARDENER • CHRISTIAN LABOR
CHAPTER six "Each Man Is a Devil to Himself" 186
The Paris of Humbert de Romans
1. Economic Space 188
CITE, BOURG, COMMUNE • THE STREET • FAIRS AND MARKETS
2. Economic Time 200
GUILD AND CORPORATION • ECONOMIC TIME AND CHRISTIAN TIME
HOMO ECONOMICUS
3. The Death of Icarus 207
CHAPTER SEVEN Fear of Touching 212
The Jewish Ghetto in Renaissance Venice
1. Venice as a Magnet 277
2. The Walls of the Ghetto 222
CORRUPT BODIES • THE URBAN CONDOM
JEWS AND COURTESANS
3. A Shield But Not a Sword 241
QADOSH • THE WEIGHT OF PLACE
4. The Miraculous Lightness of Freedom 249
PART THREE
ARTERIES AND VEINS
CHAPTER EIGHT Moving Bodies i "255
Harvey's Revolution
1. Circulation and Respiration 255
BLOOD PULSES • THE CITY BREATHES
2. The Mobile Individual 271
SMITH'S PIN FACTORY • GOETHE FLEES SOUTH
3. The Crowd Moves 275
CHAPTER NINE The Body Set Free 282
Boullee's Paris
1. Freedom in Body and Space 285
MARIANNE'S BREASTS
THE VOLUME OF LIBERTY
2. Dead Space 296
3. Festival Bodies 304
RESISTANCE BANISHED
SOCIAL TOUCHING
CHAPTER TEN Urban Individualism . 317
E. M. Forster's London
1. The New Rome 317
2. Modern Arteries and Veins 324
REGENT'S PARK
HAUSSMANN'S THREE NETWORKS LONDON UNDERGROUND
3. Comfort 338
THE CHAIR AND THE CARRIAGE SEALED SPACE
4. The Virtue of Displacement 349
THE CAFE AND THE PUB
CONCLUSION Civic Bodies 355
Multi-Cultural New York
1. Difference and Indifference 355
GREENWICH VILLAGE • CENTER AND PERIPHERY
2. Civic Bodies 370

Notes 377
Works Cited 399
Index 415

Introduction: Body and City
Nakedness
The Citizens Body
The Citizens Voice
The Cloak of Darkness
The Powers of Cold Bodies The Suffering Body
The Obsessive Image
Look and Believe
Look and Obey
The Impossible Obsession
Time in the Body
The Alien Body of Christ
Christian Places
Nietzsches Hawks and Lambs
Community
Stadt Luft macht frei
The Compassionate Body
The Christian Community
Each Man is a Devil to Himself
Economic Space
Economic Time
The Death of Icarus
Fear of Touching
Venice as a Magnet
The Walls of the Ghetto
A Shield But Not a Sword
The Miraculous Lightness of Freedom
Moving Bodies
Circulation and Respiration
The Mobile Individual
The Crowd Moves
The Body Set Free
Freedom in Body and Space
Dead Space
Festival Bodies
Urban Individualism
The New Rome
Modern Arteries and Veins
Comfort
The Virtue of Displacement
Civic Bodies
Difference and Indifference