Situationist City
* Book: The Situationist City, book published 1999
URL = http://books.google.com/books/about/The_situationist_city.html?id=lR_MiZPhT64C
Context
Audun Engh:
"I suggest the french writer Guy Debord - 1931 - 1994 and the Situationist International movement that he was part of. SI had an important role in initiating the May 68 rebellion in Paris.
Guy Debord and other Siuatinists were among the first to criticise le Corbusier and modernist planning, and hail the uncontrolable diversity of historic cities, from a radical, anti-authoritaran perspective.
See for example "Nine Situationist theses on traffic", from 1959, http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Guy_Debord__Situationist_Theses_on_Traffic.html
Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.
More Information
Early Situationist critique of le Corbusier:
See page 157 of this book:
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vftL-hHPttQ
Society of the Spectacle, part 1, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV6k_SKkHKQ&feature=related