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. Poetry also is a human act—the harmonious relationships hetween perceived images. All the poetry we find in nature is hut the creation of our own spirit. A town is a mighty image which stirs our minds. Why should not the town ...
... 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.
... creations of the mind. And if M. Léandre Vaillat, who is on Le Temps (which is a serious paper) and in charge of the section devoted to town planning (which is a serious subject at this juncture), were better aware of the sources of his ...
... creation which contrasts all the more with his natural surroundings because its aim is closer to his mind, and further away and more detached from his body. We can say that the further human creations are removed from our immediate ...