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Questions Traditional Conceptualizations Of 'public' And 'private,' And Illuminates The Ways In Which The Modern Metropolis Can Be Seen As A Peculiarly Intimate Construction, With Its Notion Of The Public Predicated Ultimately On A Concept Of The Private Individual Or Autonomous Self. Intimate Metropolis: Introduction / Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton, Marina Lathouri -- Urban Life / Diana Periton -- Heads: Philip-lorca Di Corcia And The Paradox Of Urban Portraiture / Hugh Campbell -- A Space For The Imagination: Depicting Women Readers In The Nineteenth-century City / Kathryn Brown -- So The Flâneur Goes For A Walk In His Room: Interior, Arcade, Cinema, Metropolis / Charles Rice -- Exhibitionism: John Soane's Model House / Helene Furján -- Private House, Public House: Victor Horta's Ubiquitous Domesticity / Amy Catania Kulper -- Drawing And Dispute: The Strategies Of The Berlin Block / Katharina Borsi -- The Necessity Of The Plan: Visions Of Individuality And Collective Intimacies / Marina Lathouri -- City Is House And House Is City: Aldo Van Eyck, Piet Blom, And The Architecture Of Homecoming / Karin Jaschke -- Urban Play: Intimate Space And Postwar Subjectivity / Roy Kozlovsky -- Pervasive Intimacy: The Unité D'habitation And Golden Lane As Instruments Of Postwar Domesticity / Christopher Hight -- Zoom: Google Earth And Global Intimacy / Vittoria Di Palma. Edited By Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton And Marina Lathouri. This Book Originated In A Conference, The Intimate Metropolis: Domesticating The City, Infiltrating The Room, Held At The Architectural Association, London, In October 2003.--p. X. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.