Situationist city /

Sadler, Simon

Situationist city / Simon Sadler - London : MIT Press (Massachusetts Institute of Tehnology), 1999, c1998. - ix, 233 p. : ill

Part 1 Introduction: more about less-- the poverty of modernism-- the organization of this book-- Part 2 The naked city - realities of design and space laid bare: nurturing the "real life" of the city-- beyond the rational city-- from "plenty" to "excess"-- carving out the spaces of culture and politics-- urbanism and power-- defending urban mix-- Part 3 Formulary for a new urbanism - rethinking the city: from the rational to the sublime-- making sense of psychogeography-- a passion for maps-- drifting as a revolution of everyday life-- language, time and the city-- Part 4 A new Babylon: constructing situations-- a "detourned" city-- a technological baroque-- unitary urbanism-- Constant's New Babylon-- the structure of New Babylon-- New Babylon's utopian fun-- disorientation-- a cybernetic architecture-- the debate over technocracy

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Architecture--philosophy
Internationale situationniste --Influence
Avant-garde --Aesthetics--Europe--20th century--History

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