occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. |Manhattan,| he writes, |is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle - |the culture of congestion| - and its architecture. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Delirious New York PDF By:Rem Koolhaas Published on by The Monacelli Press, LLC
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