Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Title: Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Author: Rem Koolhaas ISBN: 9781885254009 Publisher: The Monacelli Press Published: 1997 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Architecture & Design 1555055 Publisher Description: Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. 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. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. 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 it