Ladders

Dwelling Within Abstraction: Notes on Albert Pope's Ladders, Pier Vittorio Aureli -- Introduction: The Primacy of Space -- The Primacy of Space -- The Primacy of Form -- Space/Form -- Space/Time -- An Idea of Form in a City of Space -- Chapter One: The Open City -- The Open City -- Apparatus of Inclusion -- Centripetal and Centrifugal Grids -- The Historical Flow -- Manhattan, 1811 -- Agoraphobia -- Queens, 1908 -- Centripetal vs. Closed City -- 339th Avenue -- Urban Transition -- Chapter Two: Urban Implosion -- Urban Implosion -- Grid Erasure -- The Ladder -- Linear Cities -- Hilberseimer.

The Linear and Centric Metropolis -- Grid Replanning -- Modernism and Closure -- The Super-Urban Stage -- Chapter Three: Inundation of Space -- Inundated by Space -- Reorganization -- Terminal Center -- The Interurban Spine -- Bridges and Tunnels -- The Ellipsis -- Free Space -- Urban Architecture -- Inside -- Imploded Node -- A Spatial Dominant -- A Postmodern Sublime -- The Closure of Capital -- Native Urban Space -- Addendum -- Chapter Four: The Centripetal City -- The Centripetal City -- Binary Structures -- Local/Global -- Centralized Polynuclear Expansion.

The Emergence of the Polynuclear Field -- Grid, Line, and Center -- The Indeterminate Center -- The Metropolitan Endgame -- Closure -- The Atomized Subject -- Planned Disapperance -- The Strip is the Megastructure -- Exurban Ellipsis -- The Disorganization of Space -- Postwar Reversal -- Collaborating with Entropy -- Sprawling Babels -- The Residue is Not Inert -- Conclusion: Mass Absence -- Mass Absence -- Ideologies in a Void -- A Cultivated Withdrawal -- A Negative Sovereignty -- The People Are Missing -- The Reinvention of Space, The Space of Reinvention -- Modernism and Megalopolis.

The Invention of Unbounded Space -- Tabula Rasa and the Reinvention of Space -- The Agnostic Outlook -- Space Follows Subject -- A Suspended Revolution -- Postcript: Sarah Whiting -- Illustration and Photo Credits -- References -- Index.

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