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Concrete Islands
(Bureaucracy and Labyrinth)

 Section 01
The Grid
Haphazard Arrangements
Violence and Confrontation
Glass Boxes

Section  02
Planetary Suburbia
Jumbled Spatiality
Intruder in the Fortress
Endlessly Reenacted
Unrelated Objects
Residential Buildings

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Concrete Islands
(Bureaucracy and Labyrinth)


Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1978
The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.