Forgetful Athens -- A Venice without Venetians -- The invisible city -- Toward Chongqing -- The language of skyscrapers -- The Forma Urbis: aesthetic redemption -- How much is Venice worth? -- The paradox of conservation, the poetics of reutilization -- Replicating Venice -- History's supermarket -- The truth of the simulacrum -- Margins -- The right to the city -- "Civic capital" and the right to work -- Spaceships of modernity -- Venice and Manhattan -- The architect's ethics: Hippocrates and Vitruvius -- Venice: a thinking machine.
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