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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... creation of huildings of great height and hulk used or occupied hy immense numhers of people, and on the other hand hy the advent of the rapidly moving motor vehicle, that they cannot he dealt with hy simple methods. The adequate ...
... creation of our own spirit. A town is a mighty image which stirs our minds. Why should not the town he, even to-dcyr, a source of poetry .9 91% Geometry is the means, created hy ourselves, wherehy we perceive the external world and ...
... and his instincts in check, subordinating them to the aim he has in view. He rules the brute creation by his intelligence. His intelligence formulates laws which are the product of experience. His experience is born of work; man works in.
... created in every detail in a rectilinear and well-planned fashion; the Observatoire, the Invalides and the Esplanade, the Tuileries and the Champs Elyse'es, rose far from the chaos, outside the town ;—all these were ordered and ...
... created by the universe, is the sum of that universe, as far as he himself is concerned; he proceeds according to its laws and believes he can read them; he has formulated them and made of them a coherent scheme, a rational body of ...