Raketenstadt

[Dave Monroe]

By the way, a few recent acquisitions that might be of
interest in re: the iconography of those various
Raketenstadten (?) in Gravity's Rainbow ...


Brosterman, Norman.  Out of Time: Designs for the
   Twentieth-Century Future.  New York: Harry N.
   Abrams, 2000.

http://www.nyhistory.org/out/programs.html


Corn, Joseph J. and Brian Horrigan.
   Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the
   American Future.  Ed. Katharine Chambers.
   Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1984.

http://web7.si.edu/yt/about.html


Gelertner, David Hillel.  1939: The Lost World
   of the Fair.  New York: The Free Press, 1995.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.10/gelernter.html?person=ted_kaczynski&topic_set=wiredpeople


Lichtenstein, Claude and Franz Engler, eds.
   Streamlined: A Metaphor for Progress.
   Baden, Switzerland: Lars Muller, 1999.

http://www.papress.com/books/1568980655.html


Neumann, Dietrich and Donald Albrecht, eds.
   Film Architecture: Set Designs from Metropolis
   to Blade Runner.  New York: Prestel, 1996.

http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/exhibits/95-96/filmarch.html

http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/exhibits/95-96/filmarchgif.html

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/1995-96/95-033.html


Unfortunately, I did not get to see any of the
exhibitions involved ...


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