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said: "A unitary urbanism—the synthesis of art and technology that we call for—must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated." This mode of urban practice was also called for in a tract distributed during a demonstration by
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may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a synthesis aiming at the construction of entire atmospheres and styles of life. ... A unitary urbanism—the synthesis we call for, incorporating arts and
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disagreed about the praxis: Nieuwenhuys focused on structure, while Debord on content. Together, they issued the designation "the complex, ongoing activity which consciously recreates
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The critical practice continued to be developed by the Situationists and others. It was largely abandoned for the Debordian theory of the
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technologies—must be created in accordance with new values of life, values which we now need to distinguish and disseminate.
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was further developed in the 1950s by the LI, and consists of a range of practices that include, but are not limited to:
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according to the most advanced conceptions in every domain". The disagreement led to Nieuwenhuys' split from the
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which was applied to architecture by the Lettrist International (LI). The UU critique of
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Unitary urbanism, one of the major early Situationist concerns, stands on two tenets:
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were formed. One of the few groups openly practicing unitary urbanism today is
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that one cannot identify where function ends and play begins. The resulting
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History of Unitary Urbanism and Psychogeography at the Turn of the Sixties
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In the UU ideal, structural and artistic elements of humanity's
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Unitary urbanism was announced as a very specific praxis at the
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Critique of built environment studies advanced by the Letterists
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The rejection of the detachment of art from its surroundings.
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platform between the Lettrist International and the
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