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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... City planning—Forecasting. 2. City planning—History—ZOth century. I. Title. NA9095.L413 1987 711'.4'0904 86-24342 ISBN 0-486-25352-5 Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation 25552509 WWWrd0V€fpubllCfltl0HS£0m N Le ...
... City of London itself is a conspicuous example. Fen/ Englishmen are likely to he insensihle to the charm of what is accidental or picturesque or a little haphazard / The sensation of pleasure that an old uillage, for example, can cause ...
... city—one which he calls the “ Voisin ” scheme for the centre of Paris, and the other his more developed plans for the “ City of Three Million Inhahitants.” He admits that these plans are to some extent tentative and that they do not ...
... City of To-morron/ ” wears a more friendh/ aspeet on eloser examination. Indeed Le Corhusier has taken to heart the maxim of Pythagoras,1 and has planned his city, in spite of its vastness, on the human seale. These plans for a modern city ...
... 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 open spaces, either in the form 0]' immenseh ...