Vertical Suburbs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 6
3. The Men of a Million Lies, or How We Imagine the World
4. Plato's Cinema 15
5. The Deceptions of Memory 18
6. Cartography and the Canvas of White Spaces 24
7. Faust the Imperial Architect 28
8. The Dialectics of Inspiration 31
9. In Morphia Veritas 34
10. Here be Cities 37
11. Dentata 40
12. Robinsonade 47
13. Where the Wild Things Are 54
14. No North, No South, No East, No West 57
15. The Tower
16. The Sun King 63
17. Proteus 75
18. Perfecting the Shipwreck 82
19. The Sublime, Twinned With the Abyss 87
20. Apocalypse Then 90
21. The Urbacides 96
22. Houses of Vice and Virtue 99
23. New Jerusalem, or N evertown 104
24. The Ancient Modernists 111
25. The Map is the Real 114
26. Blueprinting Eternity 118
27. Babel 121
28. The Living Ruins 128
29. The Return of Mammon 134
30. City of Angels 138
31. Discovering the Diagonal 140
32. The Lightning Rod 141
33. Skyscraper Mania 144
34. Elevators Through the Stratosphere 147
35. The Golem 150
36. Vertical Suburbs 154
37. Sanctifying the Secular 156
38. Lift Off 159
39. It Came From the Depths 163
40. The Evaporating Cities 171
41. A Glowing Future 177
42. The Alchemical Cities
43. Cities Made Without Hands 181
44. Foundations 189
45. The Wrath of God 192
46. The Drowned World 198
47. Seasteading 209
48. The Seven Invisible Cities of Gold 213
49. The Abiding Desire for No Place
50. The Thirteenth Hour 225
51. Cockaigne 229
52. The Biological City 233
53. Possessed 245
54. The Jungle 247
55. The Glass Delusion 258
56. The House of Constructions 266
57. Books Versus Stone 272
58. Remembering the Future
59. The Mechanical Heart 277
60. Further Sleepwalking 281
61. Of Steam and Clockwork 289
62. Micropolis 312
63. Tomorrow Will Continue Forever 314
64. Accelerator 318
65. Pow 323
66. Sealess Ships, Grounded Spacecraft and the Curse of the Genie 326
67. Home is Where the Harm Is 334
68. The Cinematic Dystopia of the Everyday 342
69. In Love With Velocity 358
70. On the Road 369
71. The Crystal Palaces 375
72. Plotting the Stars 390
73. Flux Us 397
74. The Megalomania of Cells 416
75. Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! 419
76. Releasing the Golem 436
77. The Turk
78. The Pit and the Pendulum 441
79. The Gothic Trojan Horse 450
80. Neo-Neanderthals 459
81. The All-Seeing I 465
82. In Defense of Caliban 468
83. The Gaze 470
84. The Blind Watchmakers 475
85. Guest List 479
86. The Magic Kingdom 502
87. The Last Laugh 504
88. Waste 506
89. No Man's City 510
90. Conquest 521
91. Of Wealth and Taste 525
92. Pandemonium 527
93. Nothing Ever Happens 542
94. Flotsam and Jetsam
95. The Fall 545
96. The Wounds of Possibility 559
97. Terraforms 561
98. About the Author 572