Table of Contents

Prelude

Digital Modelling for Urban Design

Flattening Urban Design

Modelling Discourse

Development of the Book

Organisation of the Book

Archaeology and War

Genealogy and Trade

Schizoanalysis and Desire

Possible Urban Futures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Spectacularisation of Urban Design

Ground Zero

Preliminary Design Concepts

Innovative Design Study

The Design Exhibition Spectacle

Transit Hub, Memorial Design and Freedom Tower

Other Representations

Beyond the Spectacle

Chapter 1

Archaeology

1985–1995: Transparent Cities

1995–2005: An Archaeology of Globalisation

From Transparent Cities to Archaeological Modelling

1893–1901: Forma Urban Romae

1915–1928: The Iconography of Manhattan Island

1890–1932: The Geo-body of Bangkok

Assembling New Urban Design Models

Collateral Space

Correlative Space

Complementary Space

Multiplicities and Seriality

Chapter 2

War

1801–1893: The Emergence of Scientific Archaeology

50 BC – AD 203: Modelling the Spoils of War

Urban Design as Triumphal Model

300–1300: The Recycling City Model

Churches: The New Urban Artefacts

1300–1944: Urban Design as Representation and Destruction

The Dispersed City Model

Destructions and Dispersals

Chapter 3

Genealogy

Descent and Emergence

Three Urban Design Genealogies

Rome: A Genealogy of the Master Plan

New York: A Genealogy of the Central Business District

The Urban Designer as Organisation Man

Bangkok: A Genealogy of Lifestyle Centres

Bangkok's CSD

The Dispersal of Power

Chapter 4

Trade

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