Quotes by Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader

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Couples will no longer spend their nights in their houses dedicated to habitation and reception, the customary social re — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, r — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
All that remains of the garden city in our own day are traffic-free enclaves, islands in a sea of traffic where the pede — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future.Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov) — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
The alarming lack of ideas that is recognizable in all acts of culture, politics, organization of life, and the rest is — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort -- sewage system, — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
Unitary urbanism's point of departure is the changeableness of our aspirations and our activities. We know that neither — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on the — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
We leave to monsieur Le Corbusier his style that suits factories as well as it does hospitals. And the prisons of the fu — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
Byproduct of the circulation of commodities, human circulation considered as a form of consumption, tourism comes down f — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
Moreover the present abundance3 of private cars is nothing other than the result of the non-stop propaganda through whic — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
So many problems we will get to the bottom of later, but whose spatial aspect we must grasp right away. If the space of — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
Because of this false idea, they devised an aesthetic belief in making the exterior of an object a reflection of the pra — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
...the assessment of psychological drift, that is the way in which an undirected pedestrian tends to move about in a par — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
8. Conditions of DialogueThe functional is what is practical. The only practical thing is the resolution of our fundamen — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diag — Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader