It seems that such a project draws appropriate conclusions from the current tendency to depreciate randomly encountered primary sentiments, and that its realization could contribute to accelerating that depreciation. One of our comrades has advanced a theory of »states-of-mind« quarters, according to which each quarter of a city would be designed to provoke a specific basic sentiment to which people would knowingly expose themselves. Spatial development must take into account the emotional effects that the experimental city is intended to produce. The most elementary unit of unitary urbanism is not the house, but the architectural complex, which combines all the factors conditioning an ambiance, or a series of clashing ambiances, on the scale of the constructed situation. Secondly, unitary urbanism is dynamic, in that it is directly related to styles of behavior. In each of its experimental cities unitary urbanism will act by way of a certain number of force fields, which we can temporarily designate by the classic term »quarter.« Each quarter will tend toward a specific harmony distinct from neighboring harmonies or else will play on a maximum breaking up of internal harmony.
But it can no longer correspond to any of the traditional aesthetic categories. Integral art, which has been talked about so much, can be realized only at the level of urbanism.
It must include both the creation of new forms and the détournement of previous forms of architecture, urbanism, poetry and cinema. Unitary urbanism must, for example, determine the acoustic environment as well as the distribution of different varieties of food and drink. Such an interrelated ensemble must be envisaged as incomparably more far-reaching than the old domination of architecture over the traditional arts, or than the present sporadic application to anarchic urbanism of specialized technology or of scientific investigations such as ecology. Unitary urbanism is defined first of all as the use of all arts and techniques as means contributing to the composition of a unified milieu. Our perspectives of action on the environment ultimately lead us to the notion of unitary urbanism. We must develop a systematic intervention based on the complex factors of two components in perpetual interaction: the material environment of life and the behaviors which it gives rise to and which radically transform it. Our central idea is the construction of situations, that is to say, the concrete construction of momentary ambiances of life and their transformation into a superior passional quality. «Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency's Conditions of Organisation and Action»
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