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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction: The Choice of Words | |
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| Texts as Realizers | |
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| The De Re Aedificatoria, Inaugural text | |
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| The Communal Edicts and the Fate of Their Argumentation | |
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| The Pseudo-Treatises of the Renaissance and the Classical Age | |
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| True and False Utopias | |
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| The Utopia of Thomas More, Inaugural Text | |
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| After Utopia | |
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| From Theleme to Clarens | |
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| From the Nova Atlantis to Contemporary Futurology | |
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| Rhetorical Utopias | |
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| Texts as Commentators | |
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| The Objectification of Urban Space | |
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| Commentaries for and Against the City | |
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| The Architecture of the De Re Aedificatoria | |
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| A Theory of Edification | |
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| The Beautiful and Its Antinomies | |
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| Alberti and Vitruvius: Or Supra-structural Borrowing | |
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| Alberti and Vitruvius: Narratives and Histories in the De Re Aedificatoria | |
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| The Architect-Hero | |
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| Model Space and Spatial Model: A Phenomenological Approach | |
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| Portrait Space and Model Space | |
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| A Universalizable Device | |
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| Model and Eternity | |
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| The Pharmakon | |
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| The Mirror Stage and the Utopian Stage | |
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| The Mythic Construction | |
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| More and Plato | |
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| More and the Problematics of the Renaissance | |
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| The Fate of the Architectural Treatises | |
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| The First Generation | |
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| The Vitruvianizing Regression | |
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| Two Exceptions: The Treatises of Perrault and Scamozzi | |
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| The Resistance of the Utopian Figure | |
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| The Reductive Utopia of Morelly | |
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| The Canonic Utopia: Sinapia and Hyperspatialization | |
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| Science and Utopia Versus the Architectural Treatise: The Fragmented Treatise of Patte | |
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| Pre-Urbanism | |
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| The Teoria as Paradigm | |
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| Scientific and Scientific Discourse | |
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| Medicalization and Utopia | |
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| The Dominance of the Morean Figure: The Pseudo-Albertian Traits | |
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| The Work of the I of the Trattatisto | |
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| Other Theories: From Sitte to Alexander | |
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| Scientific Discourse: Simulations and Realities | |
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| The Predominance of the Signs of Utopia | |
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| The Pseudo-Albertian Traits | |
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| Variations on the I of the Trattatisto | |
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| Ouverture: From Words to Things | |
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| Analysis of the Construction of the De Re Aedificatoria | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Corpus of Instaurational Texts | |
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| References Beyond The Corpus | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Ideas | |