Week Four (Feb 7) Urban Space, Part II: Spectacles and Situationists

Le Corbusier, Ville Contemporaine 'A Contemporary City for Three Million Inhabitants' (1922)

Assignments for today

• Ivan Chtcheglov, "Formulary for a New Urbanism," Internationale Situationniste #1 (October 1953). 
• David Pinder, "'Old Paris is No More': Geographies of Spectacle and Anti-Spectacle," Antipode, Vol. 32, No. 4 (2000): 357–386. 
• "Critique of Urbanism," Internationale Situationniste #6 (August 1961).  
• RESPONSE PAPER #1 DUE TODAY on any of the readings from Weeks 2-4.

For further reading and research

• Constant, "Another City for Another Life," Internationale Situationniste #3 (December 1959).
• Guy Debord, "Theory of the dérive" Les Lèvres Nues #9 (November 1956). 
• Situationist International, "Unitary Urbanism at the End of the 1950s," Internationale Situationniste #3 (December 1959). 
• Raoul Vaneigem, "Comments Against Urbanism," Internationale Situationniste #6 (August 1961). 
• Attila Kotanyi and Raoul Vaneigem, "Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism," Internationale Situationniste #6 (August 1961).
• Thomas F. McDonough, “Situationist Space,” October, Vol. 67, (Winter, 1994), pp. 58-77. 

Related media

• Guy Debord, La Société du Spectacle (Society of the Spectacle)
• Victor Nieuwenhuijs, Babylon de Constant (a film about Constant's 'New Babylon' project)