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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... curve is ruinous, diflicult and dangerous ; it is a paralyzing thing. The straight line enters into all human history, into all human aim, into every human act. We must have the courage to view the rectilinear cities of America with ...
... curves have always belonged rather to Germany and the countries of the North (baroque, rococo, disjointed Gothic, up to and including the plans of modern towns). M. Léandre Vaillat and those with whom he shares his sympathies adore and ...
... curve; it creates its implements ; and this we call progress. The components of passion remain constant ; they are low or high, coming between two limits which the ages have not altered. And we may risk the hypothesis that the greatest ...
... curve he follows is that of the passions. Beyond utilitarian ends, he questions the imperishable: man. The engineer is a pearl among men, we agree. But he is a pearl on a string, and the only other pearls he knows are his two neighhours ...
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