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OverviewVisions of the City is a dramatic history of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. The author critically examines influential utopian approaches to urbanism in western Europe associated with such figures as Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier, uncovering the political interests, desires and anxieties that lay behind their ideal cities. He also investigates avant-garde perspectives from the time that challenged these conceptions of cities, especially from within surrealism. At the heart of this richly illustrated book is an encounter with the explosive ideas of the situationists. Tracing the subversive practices of this avant-garde group and its associates from their explorations of Paris during the 1950s to their alternative visions based on nomadic life and play, David Pinder convincingly explains the significance of their revolutionary attempts to transform urban spaces and everyday life. He addresses in particular Constant's New Babylon, finding within his proposals a still powerful provocation to imagine cities otherwise. The book not only recovers vital moments from past hopes and dreams of modern urbanism. It also contests current claims about the 'end of utopia', arguing that reconsidering earlier projects can play a critical role in developing utopian perspectives today. Through the study of utopian visions, it aims to rekindle elements of utopianism itself. 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, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate School Full Product DetailsAuthor: David PinderPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.771kg ISBN: 9780415953108ISBN 10: 0415953103 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 24 January 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1: Introduction; 2: Restorative utopias; 3: Modernist calls to order; 4: Dreams of cities and monsters; 5: Situationist adventures; 6: The great game to come; 7: Life will reside in poetry; 8: Partisans of possibilitiesReviewsA 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, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate School Visions of the City will quickly become a revered, much-cited and classic text. -- Chris Philo, Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow """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, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate School ""Visions of the City will quickly become a revered, much-cited and ""classic"" text."" -- Chris Philo, Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow" 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. <br>. <br>-David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate School <br> Visions of the City will quickly become a revered, much-cited and classic text. <br>. <br>-Chris Philo, Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow <br> 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, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate School Visions of the City will quickly become a revered, much-cited and classic text. . -Chris Philo, Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow Author InformationDavid Pinder is Lecturer in Human Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the co-editor of CulturalGeography in Practice (2003). 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