Delirious New York

by Rem Koolhaas

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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 its architecture.

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  • ISBN10 0195200357
  • ISBN13 9780195200355
  • Publish Date 1 April 1985 (first published 26 February 1979)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 16 June 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press, USA
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English