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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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Apparently the Dutch situationist Constant had (co-)written a pamphlet fifty years earlier about his ideal city. The pamphet, it was revealed, could just as easily be interpreted as a joke instead of as an actual serious statement. Sadler, Simon, “A New Babylon. 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. €�The benign professionalism of architecture and design had, in their opinion [situationists], led to a sterilization of the world that threatened to wipe out any sense of spontaneity and playfulness. 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. The book is divided into three parts. Sadler, Simon, 1998, The Situationist City, The MIT Press I picked this book because cities are interesting to me and I'd like to learn more about theories and movements to do with living in city, urbanism, utopia and the like. Exploring the potential of public spaces. €�Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones.” [6]. In reading and reviewing McKenzie Wark's The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, I couldn't help but think about the practice of art in the city of Detroit. (from the amazon blurb: "Simon Sadler searches for the Situationist City among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that the SI left behind. As Rebecca Solnit has said, the great city of walkers and of revolution is Paris. The dérive was a course of preparation, reconnaissance, a means of shaping situationist psychology among urban explorers for the eventuality of the situationist city. "Play and the Urban Realm", in The Ludic City. The situationists were are radical group of artists, theorists and activists, mainly in Paris in the '60s. His publications study the architectural ideas of the Archigram group, the Situationists, and other experimental practices. This vision was radicalized in the . Invited speakers include Simon Sadler, author of "The Situationist City". The situationists were concerned with expressing their desires and the desires of the city, embracing play and rejecting work, creating 'situations' in which one could engage with the city as flux – an ever changing event.