Bookshelf Killer

Get ready, 'cause here comes another Koolhaas urbanism manifesto ready to break the legs on your coffee table. 800 pages in length, the Harvard Guide to Shopping is the long awaited tome from the Harvard Graduate School of Design's "Project on the City" seminar studying the various philosophies behind consumerism and urban life. If you're one of those overly analytical types who'd rather spend time thinking about why people shop and consume than doing it (like me), by all means -- pick it up. Exerpts of it appeared in last year's Mutations.

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