The City of Tomorrow and Its PlanningCourier Corporation, 09.04.2013 - 352 Seiten In this 1929 classic, the great architect Le Corbusier turned from the design of houses to the planning of cities, surveying urban problems and venturing bold new solutions. The book shocked and thrilled a world already deep in the throes of the modern age. |
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... become a usual appendage to the urban dwelling. city's “ lungs ” when the whole city should he one vast hreathing organ. Le Corhusier claims that on the average nearly 90 per cent. of the ground area of his modern city would consist of ...
... become a great capital; Paris, Rome, and Stamboul are based upon the Pack-Donkey's Way. The great capitals have no arteries ; they have only capillaries : further growth, therefore, implies sickness or death. In order to survive, their ...
... becomes dissipated, overcome and absorbed by a nation or a society that goes to work in a positive way and controls itself. It is in this way that cities sink to nothing and that ruling The right angle is the essential and su/jicient ...
... become conscious then of a feeling which is set free, and arising out of our small and fixed daily occupations, a sensibility which can lead them in the direction of an ideal form—towards a style (for style is a state of mind)—towards a ...
... become more and more elaborated, more and more audacious and of a temerity that might well bring down the anger of the gods. Additions, the slide rule, squared paper, Btrotian calm. We shall have a clear example of it later, when we ...