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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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But the agenda of functional separation also resulted in the conclusion that Amsterdam's economic center, the CBD, had to be further expanded and the old city had to be “opened up” to traffic. (McDonough “Situationist Space,” pg. As Rebecca Solnit has said, the great city of walkers and of revolution is Paris. This week predominantly involved us working on our essay which was due on Friday while also keeping our event ideas in the back of our mind. The Cobra group dissolved only three years after it was founded, but Cobra members Constant Nieuwenhuys and Asger Jorn were to re-appear on stage as co-founders of the Situationist International in 1958. David Pinder's Visions of the City and Jonathan Raban's Soft City. In this connection, Guy Debord states that the city should be explored without any preconceptions or prejudices. Home > SDS Programs > Foundation > laboratory > lab readings > The Situationist City. New Babylon - the situationist city/utopia – taking the best parts and ideas of the globe and putting/patterning them together. Connected drift is based on the situationist technic of the psychogeographic walk in which chance and the surrounding environment itself determines the route taken. 130606_Situationist City The Situationist City. David Pinder's Visions of the City (2005) takes a primarily Situationist look at the city and discusses détournement, the dérive and their cartography in depth. This vision was radicalized in the . The dérive was a course of preparation, reconnaissance, a means of shaping situationist psychology among urban explorers for the eventuality of the situationist city.