TY - GEN AU - Solomon, Daniel TI - Global city blues SN - 9781597260855 U1 - 307.76 PY - 2006/// CY - Washington PB - Island Press KW - N1 - CONTENTS Introduction xi PART 1 NEARNESS 2 Measure the Night with Bells 5 Peaches 15 Alice 21 The Monster 25 PART 2 TIMES 28 Eichlers 31 Three Eras 37 The Dawn of Nonhistory 47 The Moderns 55 Turning Twenty 59 Deliverance at the White Table 61 Panic 65 Erasure 71 PART 3 SITE VERSUS ZEIT 76 Colin Rowe 81 Black Plans 87 Style 101 Why the City Is Not a Work of Art 107 Another Truth 115 PART 4 URBANISM 120 At Home 123 The Twelfth Map 131 Surviving Success 145 Out of Town 151 Gemeindebauen 161 PART 5 IN ASIA 168 Dorothy Lamour on a Flying Pigeon 171 The Diagram 173 The Prosperity Bomb 181 Nearness for the Rich: The Case of Adrian Zecha 187 PART 6 CYBERTIME 190 Good Technology, Bad Tec nnology 193 New Words 197 The Interview 201 PART 7 SIGNS OF LIFE 206 CNU 209 HOPE VI 215 Monuments 221 Piano 231 Epilogue 241 Bibliography 245 Index 247 ER -