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In reading and reviewing McKenzie Wark's The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, I couldn't help but think about the practice of art in the city of Detroit. It looked at Guy Debord's Correspondence (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) 2008) and Tom McDonough's The Situationists and the City (London: Verso 2010). He seeks to redefine notions of the Situationists' urban critique, arguing that instead it persisted throughout the group's duration. The mid-twentieth century in Paris saw a movement identified as the Situationist International. 70 (2010), I contributed a review, titled 'Situating the Situationists'. The book was reviewed by Edwin Heathcote, John Green, Karl Whitney, Resonant City, Gwen Webber, Peter D. Book Review: The Beach Beneath the Street – the Situationists · bkg_constant_babylon-1 Constant was a Dutch painter and artist who spent many years designing the utopian city of New Babylon. The Situationists' focus on the city has been central to McDonough's choice of documents. Christopher Collier (University of Essex) and Joanna Figiel (City University London), 'The Recombinant Dérive – The Situationist International, biopolitics and the neoliberal dérèglement de tous les sens'. 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. The rest of this chapter takes us on a whistle-stop tour of alternative urbanism; from the Situationist International's avant-garde 'psychogeography' to graffiti, parkour and free-running, to contemporary urban exploration. Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 5, 2009. In fact, I would argue that this definition of Open Source Urbanism dates back to the Situationist city of Unitary Urbanism, where urban dynamics would no longer be driven by bureaucracy and capitalism but by participation. Though I missed out on the Situationist art movement, the notion that I gather of it has always struck a certain chord with me, especially in regards to Detroit. The Situationists and the City, edited by Tom McDonough, was published last year by Verso (Amazon). Most importantly “there is no longer any Temple of the Sun”; there is no 'place of enlightenment' in the city where cultural activities can come together. Last month, Rick Montgomery wrote an interesting article, “Behavioral Economics Is Moving from Theory to Policy,” for the Kansas City Star. City – Psychogeographic Microcosms. The situationist city by simon sadler: guy debord by anselm jappe; Donald nicholson-smith. Situationists and Independents felt that indigenous living patterns were best nurtured through the “clustering” of the city. Psychogeography: Situationist Reconnaissance for Revolution: Part 1.