The Metropolis Observed
David Malcolm Rose can be reached at
davidmalcolm@earthlink.net or (615)
896-9314. Kenneth Foote's Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence
and Tragedy is available at
www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/foosha.html. Michael
Anastassiades's designs are available at
www.bluedeco.com/bordeaux/designers.html.
J. Mandle Performance's new project will be presented at Gale Gates, 37
Main Street, at Water Street, Brooklyn, December 5--22 at 8 p.m. Box
office: (718) 522-4597 or
www.galegates.org. Return will be adapted
for two performances at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange on January 4--5;
for information call (718) 832-0018.
In Production
Jyoti Vennix's KomKom bowls can be purchased from the MoMA Design Store
at 44 West 53rd Street (212) 767-1050 and 81 Spring Street (646) 613-1367,
in New York, or online at
www.momastore.org.
The Wright Idea
Wright's work is for sale at
www.modfather.com, updated weekly.
Not Your Grandmother's Old Age
MIT's AgeLab Web site,
http://web.mit.edu/agelab, documents its mission
and research and offers links to a wealth of related sources. MIT also offers
a timeline of transportation studies from 1973 to the present, including
Joe Coughlin's work, at
http://web.mit.edu/cts/www/research-timeline.htm.
Polaroid's Digital Gamble
Examine Henry Dreyfuss Associates' prolific design history at
www.hda.net.
Q&A Vincent Scully
You can find descriptions of Vincent Scully's books, including American
Architecture and Urbanism and Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade,
at
www.bkstore.com/yale/fac/scully.html.
Digital Domain
For more information about Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame
Age 1971-1984 (MIT Press, $49.95), go to
www.supercade.com/supercade.html
(which has a link to order the book from
amazon.com for just $34.96). FF
Call is available from FontShop at
www.fontshop.com or (415) 512-2093 (or
e-mail info@fontshop.com). You can see examples of Emigre's Lo-Res fonts
at
www.emigre.com; to order fonts call (800) 944-9021. Viewrinal information can
be found at the Captive View Web site,
www.captiveview.com. Log on to
www.ericsson.com
to find out about the T68 and other products. Information about
the I300 can be found at
www.samsungusa.com. E Ink's Web site is
www.eink.com.
Philips's Web site is
www.news.philips.com.
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