A superb critical exploration of the underside of utopian thought over the last hundred years and its continuing relevance in the here and now for thinking about possible urban worlds. The treatment of the Situationists and their milieu is a revelation.
David Harvey [Pinder] is both a wise and imaginative guide through the tradition and counter-tradition of utopian plans ... Read moreand visions. Visions of the City makes several new claims on the reader's attention: a critical consideration of the situationists in the context of twentieth-century urbanism, expecially Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier; a depth of research and a careful historicization of the different situationists at different moments in the movement's history; and an analysis of the situationaists' urbanism specifically in the context of utopia. A superb critical exploration of the underside of utopian thought over the last hundred years and its continuing relevance in the here and now for thinking about possible urban worlds. The treatment of the Situationists and their milieu is a revelation. [Pinder] is both a wise and imaginative guide through the tradition and counter-tradition of utopian plans and visions. Visions of the City makes several new claims on the reader's attention: a critical consideration of the situationists in the context of twentieth-century urbanism, expecially Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier; a depth of research and a careful historicization of the different situationists at different moments in the movement's history; and an analysis of the situationaists' urbanism specifically in the context of utopia. Show Less