The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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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. Stanza artwork image The Situationist City. €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 dérive was a course of preparation, reconnaissance, a means of shaping situationist psychology among urban explorers for the eventuality of the situationist city. Home > SDS Programs > Foundation > laboratory > lab readings > The Situationist City. David Pinder's Visions of the City and Jonathan Raban's Soft City. SI member and utopian architect Constant's model of Yellow Sector, from Internationale Situationniste no.4, June 1960, shows the hanging Situationist city where play and residence are united. As Rebecca Solnit has said, the great city of walkers and of revolution is Paris. An interesting thought that springs to mind about the experience of walking a city but using a map that doesn't 'match' the actual space, is Guy Debord and his writings upon the Situationists International. The situationist city by simon sadler: guy debord by anselm jappe; Donald nicholson-smith. Situationists wanted to convert the interest of play with new at ideas the level.