The scenes of the street and other essays / Anthony Vidler.

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The scenes of the street : transformations in ideal and reality, 1750-1871 -- Transparency and utopia : constructing the void from Pascal to Foucault -- Architecture, management, and morals : the design of a factory community at the end of the eighteenth century -- Mercier as urbanist : the utopia of the real -- The paradoxes of vandalism : Henri Grégoire and the Thermidorian discourse on historical monuments -- Building the urban book : Nodier in the library -- X marks the spot : the obelisk in space -- Paris démoli/Paris futur -- The new industrial world : the reconstruction of urban utopia in late-nineteenth-century France -- The modern acropolis : Tony Garnier from La cité antique to Une cité industrielle -- The idea of unity and Le Corbusier´s urban form -- The space of history : modern museums from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier -- Photourbanism : planning the city from above and below -- Unknown lands : Guy Debord and the cartographies of a landscape to be invented -- Books in space : tradition and transparency in the Bibliothèque de France.