Contents:
1. Straight lines or curved? The Victorian values of John Ruskin and Henry Cole / Robert Hewison -- 2. The first Chicago school and the ideology of the skyscraper / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury -- 3. The display window as educator : the German Werkbund and cultural economy / Lauren Kogod -- 4. Capital dwelling : industrial capitalism, financial crisis, and the Bauhaus's Haus am Horn / Robin Schuldenfrei -- 5. Big work : le Corbusier and capitalism / Deborah Gans -- 6. The varieties of capitalist experience / Simon Sadler -- 7. Manfredo Tafuri, Archizoom, Superstudio and the critique of architectural ideology / Pier Vittorio Aureli -- 8. Irrational exuberance : Rem Koolhaas and the 1990s / Ellen Dunham-Jones -- 9. Globally integrated/locally fractured : the extraordinary development of Gurgaon, India / Nathan Rich -- 10. Spectacular failure : the architecture of late capitalism at the Millennium Dome / Simon Sadler.