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Situationist city / Simon Sadler

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: MIT Press (Massachusetts Institute of Tehnology), 1999, c1998. London :Description: ix, 233 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780262692250
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1 SAD-S
Contents:
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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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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