May 1997

Guest Editor: Anthony Vidler, based on a symposium of the same name at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, January 25, 1997

Contents
Cynthia Davidson, Dear Reader
Lorne Falk, Letter from Hong Kong
Sylvia Lavin, Critic @ Large: Fear of Forming
dECOi-Objectile, Project: Pallas House
Wes Jones, The Nelsons
Anthony Vidler, Public Fear
Ed Dimendberg, City of Fear: Defensive Dispersal and the End of Film Noir
Leslie Dick, Nature Near
Ralph Rugoff, Museums of Horror
Ernest Pascucci, Diagnosing the Inner-City Psyche: The Quiet One
Elizabeth Diller, Overexposed
Henry Urbach, Dark Lights, Contagious Space
Arjun Appadurai, Burning Questions: Arson and Other Public Works in Bombay
Anthony Vidler, The Exhaustion of Space at the Scene of the Crime