TY - BOOK AU - Pope,Albert TI - Ladders. SN - 9781616894115 AV - NA9108 P6 2014 U1 - 307.121609730904 PY - 2014/// CY - Houston, TX : , New York : PB - Princeton Architectural Press, Rice University School of Architecture KW - Local KW - City planning KW - History KW - 20th century KW - United States KW - Space Architecture KW - Cities and towns KW - Interpretive programs N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-263); Dwelling Within Abstraction -- 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 ER -