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The image of the destruction of the city has a long history, and resonates disturbingly with current events. It seems to question the very possibility of creating an architecture – that is, of giving the world a form and thereby a meaning. This thesis charts mutations of that imagery as it emerges in three visual narratives punctuating the last cen...
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... bears the face of the most beautiful statue in the world. Consequently, Michi does not figure 4. Michi flies through Tezuka's Metropolis (1949); note that in contrast to Figure 1, none of these tall buildings dominates the others. This robot moves through the manga city in swoops and swerves, in contrast to the frenetic movement of her counterpart in Lang's Metropolis. ...
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