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. Last month, Rick Montgomery wrote an interesting article, “Behavioral Economics Is Moving from Theory to Policy,” for the Kansas City Star. His publications study the architectural ideas of the Archigram group, the Situationists, and other experimental practices. The pamphet, it was revealed, could just as easily be interpreted as a joke instead of as an actual serious statement. The Situationists and the City, edited by Tom McDonough, was published last year by Verso (Amazon). Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 5, 2009. Connected drift is based on the situationist technic of the psychogeographic walk in which chance and the surrounding environment itself determines the route taken. 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. This vision was radicalized in the . The book was reviewed by Edwin Heathcote, John Green, Karl Whitney, Resonant City, Gwen Webber, Peter D. Apparently the Dutch situationist Constant had (co-)written a pamphlet fifty years earlier about his ideal city.