acknowledgaments viii A Note on Translations ix Introduction 1 More about less1 The poverty of Modernism 4 The Organization of This book12 1. THE NAKED CITY : REALITIES OF DESIGN AND SPACE LAID BARE 15 Nurturing the real life of the city 15 Beyond the rational city 22 From plenty to excess33 Carving out the spaces of culture and politics 40 Urbanism and Power 47 Defending urban mix 55 2.FORMULARY FOR A NEW URBANISM : RETHINKING THE CITY 69 from the rational to the sublime 69 Making sense of psychogeography 76 A passion for maps 82 Drifting as a revolution of everyday life 91 Language, time and the city 95 3.A NEW BABYLON : THE CITY REDESIGNED 105 Constructing situations105 A detourned city 108 A technological barque 110 Unitary Urbanism117 Constant's New Babylon 122 The Structure of New Babylon 127 New Babylon's utopian fun 132 Disorientation 138 A Cybernetic architecture 147 The debate over technology 151 Conclusions 157 Notes 165 Bibliography 201 Illustration Credits 209 Index211