Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Kubrick This wallet is deceptively roomy

This wallet is deceptively roomy and equipped to handle everyday use

as well as anyone looking to gain a comprehensive understanding of the historic

The home and the family

From yellow cabs to towering skyscrapers

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Kubrick This wallet is deceptively roomySince its publication Delirious New York (1978) has attained mythic status. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the 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. "Manhattan," he writes, "is the 20th