“So many problems we will get to the bottom of later, but whose spatial aspect we must grasp right away. If the… — Tom McDonough 73 Copy Share Image
“We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry,… — Tom McDonough 33 Copy Share Image
“We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis… — Tom McDonough City Copy Share Image
“We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern… — Tom McDonough 1 Copy Share Image
“There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern… — Tom McDonough 35 Copy Share Image
“The alarming lack of ideas that is recognizable in all acts of culture, politics, organization of life, and the rest is explained… — Tom McDonough City Copy Share Image
“8. Conditions of Dialogue The functional is what is practical. The only practical thing is the resolution of our fundamental problem: the… — Tom McDonough City Copy Share Image
“Unitary urbanism's point of departure is the changeableness of our aspirations and our activities. We know that neither eternal truth nor absolute… — Tom McDonough Creative act Copy Share Image
“We leave to monsieur Le Corbusier his style that suits factories as well as it does hospitals. And the prisons of the… — Tom McDonough 35 Copy Share Image
“We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on… — Tom McDonough 56 Copy Share Image
“Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of… — Tom McDonough 153 Copy Share Image
“Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the… — Tom McDonough 28 Copy Share Image
“Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)” — Tom McDonough 35 Copy Share Image
“...the assessment of psychological drift, that is the way in which an undirected pedestrian tends to move about in a particular quarter… — Tom McDonough 140 Copy Share Image
“Byproduct of the circulation of commodities, human circulation considered as a form of consumption, tourism comes down fundamentally to the freedom to… — Tom McDonough 214 Copy Share Image
“All that remains of the garden city in our own day are traffic-free enclaves, islands in a sea of traffic where the… — Tom McDonough Creativity Copy Share Image
“Because of this false idea, they devised an aesthetic belief in making the exterior of an object a reflection of the practical… — Tom McDonough 54 Copy Share Image
“At the very opposite of these eccentricities, the chiefly urban character of derive, in touch with those centres of possibilities and meanings… — Tom McDonough 80 Copy Share Image
“Moreover the present abundance3 of private cars is nothing other than the result of the non-stop propaganda through which capitalist production persuades… — Tom McDonough 60 Copy Share Image
“A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort -- sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine.… — Tom McDonough Commodity Copy Share Image
“The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer… — Tom McDonough 108 Copy Share Image
“Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with… — Tom McDonough City Copy Share Image
“But how many chose to ignore the direct attack they laid on what is fed to all of us as 'life,' with… — Tom McDonough Life Copy Share Image
“Couples will no longer spend their nights in their houses dedicated to habitation and reception, the customary social reason for banalization. The… — Tom McDonough City Copy Share Image
“...Robert Louis Stevenson presents a character who, in London at night, is astonished 'to walk for such a long time in such… — Tom McDonough 103 Copy Share Image
