Imaginary Cities
Intro -- Contents -- The Men of a Million Lies, or How We Imagine the World -- Plato's Cinema -- The Deceptions of Memory -- Cartography and the Canvas of White Spaces -- Faust the Imperial Architect -- The Dialectics of Inspiration -- In Morphia Veritas -- Here be Cities -- Dentata -- Robinsonade -- Where the Wild Things Are -- No North, No South, No East, No West -- The Tower -- The Sun King -- Proteus -- Perfecting the Shipwreck -- The Sublime, Twinned With the Abyss -- Apocalypse Then -- The Urbacides -- Houses of Vice and Virtue -- New Jerusalem, or Nevertown -- Kurtzville -- The Ancient Modernists -- The Map is the Real -- Blueprinting Eternity -- Babel -- The Living Ruins -- The Return of Mammon -- City of Angels -- Discovering the Diagonal -- The Lightning Rod -- Skyscraper Mania -- Elevators Through the Stratosphere -- The Golem -- Vertical Suburbs -- Sanctifying the Secular -- Lift Off -- It Came From the Depths -- The Evaporating Cities -- A Glowing Future -- The Alchemical Cities -- Cities Made Without Hands -- Foundations -- The Wrath of God -- The Drowned World -- Seasteading -- The Seven Invisible Cities of Gold -- The Abiding Desire for No Place -- The Thirteenth Hour -- Cockaigne -- The Biological City -- Possessed -- The Jungle -- The Glass Delusion -- The House of Constructions -- Books Versus Stone -- Remembering the Future -- The Mechanical Heart -- Further Sleepwalking -- Of Steam and Clockwork -- Micropolis -- Tomorrow Will Continue Forever -- Accelerator -- Pow -- Sealess Ships, Grounded Spacecraft and the Curse of the Genie -- Home is Where the Harm Is -- The Cinematic Dystopia of the Everyday -- In Love With Velocity -- On the Road -- The Crystal Palaces -- Plotting the Stars -- Flux Us -- The Megalomania of Cells -- Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! -- Releasing the Golem -- The Turk -- The Pit and the Pendulum.