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Notes

Part I. The Dromocratic Revolution

1 . From Street Fight to State Right

1 . The Parisian press popularized the term following an attack on a city vehicle by a band of hoodlums whose mastermind ^was the famous " Golden Helmet."

1. Kampf um Berlin, published rwo years before the national socialists took power in 1 93 1 , and dedicated by Joseph Goebbels "to the Party's old guard in Berlin."

1. Dromomaniacs. Name given to deserters under the ancien regime, and in psychiatry to compulsive walkers.

1. Marineti, with commentary by Giovanni Lista. "Poetes d'Aujourd'hui" series, Paris.

5 . "Circulation Habitable," Architecture Principe, no. 3, April 1 966.

1. Cf. Lewis Mumford, The City in History (New York, 1 96 1 ) , et al.

1. Ibid. The presence of land was considered sufficient in and of itself before the advent of speculation.

1. Paul Virilio, L'insecurite du Territoire (Paris, 1 976) ; p. 77f

1. Course in permanent fortification at the School for the Application of Engineering and Artillery, 1 88 8 . Quoted by Vauban.

1 0 , Ibid.

1 1 . Ibid. Here again the military remarks rejoin the schema of the urban fortress. From the outset, the city is where the problems of health and evacuation of "waste" are posed. Already in the fourteenth century, the problem of pollution preoccupied the British parliament.

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