Talk:Ivan Chtcheglov

Questionable paragraph.
I removed this from the article and bring it here for comment:


 * His plans for the new urbanism were formulated in 1953. The city is boring, everybody is bored, humor has died, city-poëtry is going down, stories and sages are being pushed away by socio-economical policy reports and citylive is making room for repeating protocols. Chtcheglov pleaded for an architecture of ambience. He visualised neighborhoods of luck, streets of tragedy, historical blocks, a city block of the dead, a neighborhood of misery, a scary alley, and so on. City blocks with positive or negative radiation should follow each other up so that every sense of urbanites would be activated, and they would be able to learn how they would want to live, think, feel and create. The city would become a center of discoveries and adventures- it would make life pleasurable, sexy, interesting and exciting.

Now, while this may be a fairly accurate distillation of Chtcheglov's argument in Formulary for a New Urbanism, it is unreferenced and the tone is unencyclopaedic. And, as an original summation, it amounts to original research. --- RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive'  19:39, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Deconstructing the Tower
The final sentence makes it sound as if his commital was the direct result of his attempt to deconstruct the Eiffel Tower. If said deconstruction were literal (i.e. he physically tried to take it apart) that might be understandable, but the link goes to Deconstructionism, the philosophical term - which seems more likely. Could this be clarified a little, please? AuntFlo (talk) 07:31, 2 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I've done a bit of Googling and it seems that he did in fact conspire to literally destroy the Eiffel Tower; also, the Russian article less ambiguously says that he attempted to destroy it, and Letterist International explicitly states that he planned to blow it up. A few more sources: here, here and here. 213.121.247.2 (talk) 11:15, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Took the liberty of redirecting it to Deconstruction_(building). 213.121.247.2 (talk) 15:15, 27 October 2008 (UTC)