Rem Koolhaas Delirious New York: An Analysis

In Delirious New York, Koolhaas provides many examples, trying to document “the symbolic relationship between its mutant metropolitan culture and the unique architecture to which it gave rise”(Koolhaas 30). Koolhaas gives the example of Coney Island; an amusement park born of the culture of it surroundings. The fate of the architecture of the park equally interlocked with its neighborhood: “the need for pleasure dominates…step up production of pleasure generates its own instruments.” Rem Koolhaas in Delirious New York accurately describes the island as a “clitoral appendage at the mouth of New York Harbor”, “the incubator for Manhattan’s incipient themes and infant mythology” and “a fetal Manhattan” (30,31). Coney Island enticed commuters from