ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 takes the title of the book, Civic Spaces and Desire, as its point of departure, and proceeds to consider the various ways that one might configure and understand it, particularly in relation to modern cities and urbanism, drawing upon Paris as a key example to illustrate the discussion, and the work of Le Corbusier and Georges Perec to flesh out the argument. The chapter considers not only civic spaces and desire, when taken together and even when held apart, but also the deconstructive and schizoanalytic currents that sweep them away. Hereinafter, every civic space is deranged by a machinic desire.
