Part 1. State projects of legibility and simplification: Nature and space
Cities, people, and language ; Part 2. Transforming visions: Authoritarian high modernism
The high-modernist city : an experiment and a critique
The Revolutionary Party : a plan and a diagnosis ; Part 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production: Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams
Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aesthetics and miniaturization
Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity ; Part 4. The missing link: Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : Mētis
