The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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The book is divided into three parts. The pamphet, it was revealed, could just as easily be interpreted as a joke instead of as an actual serious statement. Situationists and Independents felt that indigenous living patterns were best nurtured through the “clustering” of the city. For the Situationists, your city was there to be misused, to be detourned. The situationists hoped that architecture would ”revolutionize everday life, release the ordinary citizen into world of experiment, anarchy and play”. His publications study the architectural ideas of the Archigram group, the Situationists, and other experimental practices. (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. The City Is Wilder and Kinder Than You Think. 'We demand games with great seriousness', that is the core essence of my research, can we still play (or were we ever able) to play with seriousness? He seeks to redefine notions of the Situationists' urban critique, arguing that instead it persisted throughout the group's duration. This is because of how much your streets are an extension of capitalism. Apparently the Dutch situationist Constant had (co-)written a pamphlet fifty years earlier about his ideal city. The Situationists' focus on the city has been central to McDonough's choice of documents.