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THE END OF OPENNESS To buy The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard, log on to www.metropolismag.com and click on "Bookstore"

RETHINKING ROBERT MOSES To buy The Power Broker, by Robert Caro, log on to www.metropolismag.com and click on "Bookstore"

RENEWING THE NEW MEDIA OpenAtelier, openatelier.media.mit.edu

DEEP DESIGN Monell Chemical Senses Center of the University of Pennsylvania, (215) 898-6666, www.monell.org

THE COMING AGE To buy E. O. Wilson's The Future of Life, log on to www.metropolismag.com and click on "Bookstore"

INSTANT INFORMATION Television by Design, (404) 873-3277, www.tvbd.com

BIOINSPIRATION Poly-PEDAL Laboratory, (510) 643-5183, polypedal.berkeley.edu

MICROCLIMATES Pierre Koenig, www-rcf.usc.edu/~pfkoenig; Natural Forces Laboratory, www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/summer99/koenig/koenig.html

NONPOLLUTING CARS General Motors, www.gm.com; Ford, www.ford.com; California Fuel Cell Partnership, www.cafcp.org; Ballard Power Systems, www.ballard.com

SUSTAINABLE SKYSCRAPERS Foster and Partners, www.fosterandpartners.com

PUBLIC TOILETS To buy Where to Go: A Guide to Manhattan's Toilets, by Vicki Rovere, log on to www.metropolismag.com and click on "Bookstore"; JC Decaux, www.jcdecaux.com; Wall USA, Inc., (617) 367-1610, www.wall.de; Danfo, www.danfo.se

EXPERIENCE MAPPING Rebuild Downtown Our Town, www.architect.org/lower_manhattan

MODERN CONTEXTUALISM Foster and Partners, www.fosterandpartners.com; Renzo Piano Building Workshop, www.rpwf.org; Beyer Blinder Belle, www.beyerblinderbelle.com

OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY Ecosa Institute, (928) 541-1002, www.ecosainstitute.org

ECO-AUDIT Sustainable Products Corporation, (202) 338-0313, www.sustainableproducts.com; Environmental Building News subscriptions, 800-861-0954 x191, www.buildinggreen.com

RAPID PROTOTYPING Art Center College of Design, (626) 396-2200, www.artcenter.edu

CONGESTION PRICING Transportation Alternatives, (212) 629-8080, www.transalt.org

INVISIBLE SECURITY Fougeron Architecture, (415) 641-5744, fougeron.com; Arpal Defender, Inc., (301) 571-9333, www.arpal.com

MULTICENTERED CITY Van Alen Institute, (212) 924-7000, www.vanalen.org; Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development, (718) 636-3486, www.picced.org; Helfand Myerberg Guggenheimer Architects, (212) 925-2900, www.hmga.com

PLASTIC PAPER To buy William McDonough and Michael Braungart's Cradle to Cradle log on to www.metropolismag.com and click on "Bookstore"

THE VIEW FROM THE PROW OF THE GETTY To buy Jim McBride's movie Breathless log on to www.metropolismag.com and click on "Bookstore"

THE MOD SQUAD The Los Angeles Conservancy, (213) 623-2489, www.laconservancy.org

THE ROAD TO HELL Milton Glaser Inc., (212) 889-3161, www.miltonglaser.com


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