This Book examines an interplay between discourses on the city that stress the

need for rational-functional order and art’s imaginative deviations from the topdown

structures of urban life. Moving between theory and praxis, the book

situates the city as both a concept and physical construct through which lives and

possibilities are shaped or defined. In response, certain modalities of art create

spontaneous, non-rational and playful interludes that risk escape from the urban

apparatus and a hyper-valorisation of rational order. A three-part...