The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

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continued here by expanding the interdisciplinary collaborations so critical
to this intellectual project, in order to embrace forms of cultural
practice that seek new ways to engage with, and influence, the city itself.
Our course of action exposes a potential contradiction in the
aims of the project. On the one hand, the body of work contained here,
taken as a whole, merely serves to confirm that the city of late capitalism
is too complex, and too fragmented in its physical and ideological
formations, to ever permit a unitary comprehension. And yet, on the
other hand, what we desire is that new understandings can lead to new
tactics for restorative and redemptive action in the city. Without necessarily
advocating a prescriptive path, our comprehension of the city
must nonetheless be enacted.