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Le situationnisme ou la nouvelle internationale
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Year: 1968 Publisher: Paris : Debresse,

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The situationist city
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ISBN: 0262193922 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT press,

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From 1957 to 1972 the artistic and political movement known as the Situationist International (SI) worked aggressively to subvert the conservative ideology of the Western world. The movement's broadside attack on "establishment" institutions and values left its mark upon the libertarian left, the counterculture, the revolutionary events of 1968, and more recent phenomena from punk to postmodernism. But over time it tended to obscure situationism's own founding principles. In this book, Simon Sadler investigates the artistic, architectural, and cultural theories that were once the foundations of situationist thought, particularly as they applied to the form of the modern city. According to the situationists, the benign professionalism of architecture and design had led to a sterilization of the world that threatened to wipe out any sense of spontaneity or playfulness. The situationists hankered after the "pioneer spirit" of the modernist period, when new ideas, such as those of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche, still felt fresh and vital. By the late fifties, movements such as British and American pop art and French nouveau realisme had become intensely interested in everyday life, space, and mass culture. The SI aimed to convert this interest into a revolution at the level of the city itself. Simon Sadler searches for the situationist city among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that the SI left behind. The book is divided into three parts. The first, "The Naked City," outlines the situationist critique of the urban environment as it then existed. The second, "Formulary for a New Urbanism," examines situationist principles for the city and for city living. The third, "A New Babylon," describes actual designs proposed for a situationist city.

The situationist city
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ISBN: 0262282801 0585028281 9780262282802 9780585028286 0262193922 9780262193924 0262692252 9780262692250 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge Mass. MIT Press

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From 1957 to 1972 the artistic and political movement known as the Situationist International (SI) worked aggressively to subvert the conservative ideology of the Western world. The movement's broadside attack on "establishment" institutions and values left its mark upon the libertarian left, the counterculture, the revolutionary events of 1968, and more recent phenomena from punk to postmodernism. But over time it tended to obscure situationism's own founding principles. In this book, Simon Sadler investigates the artistic, architectural, and cultural theories that were once the foundations of situationist thought, particularly as they applied to the form of the modern city.

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Architecture --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- City planning. --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Philosophy. --- History --- Philosophy --- Design and construction --- Government policy --- Management --- Internationale situationniste --- Mouvement international pour un Bauhaus imaginiste --- I.S. (Internationale situationniste) --- Internazionale situazionista --- Situationist International --- SI (Situationist International) --- S.I. --- Situationistische Internationale --- Katastasiakē Diethnēs --- Kansainväliset Situationistit --- Internacional situacionista --- Situat︠s︡ionistskiĭ internat︠s︡ional --- Ситуационистский интернационал --- Influence. --- Internationaal Situationisme --- Situationisme --- Situationist International (SI) --- 72.036 --- 72.03 --- 711.4 --- 72.01 --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Stedenbouw --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Architectuurtheorie --- International situationniste --- Internationale Situationniste

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