Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past…

“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

“We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting…

— Tom McDonough

“We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis of the…

— Tom McDonough

“We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through…

— Tom McDonough

“There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life. Gilles…

— Tom McDonough

“The alarming lack of ideas that is recognizable in all acts of culture, politics, organization of life, and the rest is explained by this,…

— Tom McDonough

“8. Conditions of Dialogue The functional is what is practical. The only practical thing is the resolution of our fundamental problem: the realization of…

— Tom McDonough

“Unitary urbanism's point of departure is the changeableness of our aspirations and our activities. We know that neither eternal truth nor absolute beauty exist…

— Tom McDonough

“We leave to monsieur Le Corbusier his style that suits factories as well as it does hospitals. And the prisons of the future: is…

— Tom McDonough

“We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on the whole,…

— Tom McDonough

“Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics…

— Tom McDonough

“Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the everyday and…

— Tom McDonough

“...the assessment of psychological drift, that is the way in which an undirected pedestrian tends to move about in a particular quarter of the…

— Tom McDonough

“Byproduct of the circulation of commodities, human circulation considered as a form of consumption, tourism comes down fundamentally to the freedom to go and…

— Tom McDonough

“All that remains of the garden city in our own day are traffic-free enclaves, islands in a sea of traffic where the pedestrian leads…

— Tom McDonough