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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... human mind, which insists instinctively on the tioying-up of chaotic conditions. This is the instinct for Order, This hook deals strictly with urban conditions, and its main thesis is that such a east and complicated machine as the ...
... human seale. These plans for a modern city are the result of a elose anahlsis of the three main urhan faetors to which I referred ahove—the Street, Housing and Open Spaees. W'e are a little apt to regard the Street as mainhl a provision ...
... human operation directed against nature, a human organism hoth for protection and for work. It is a creation. Poetry also is a human act—the harmonious relationships hetween perceived images. All the poetry we find in nature is hut the ...
... human history, into all human aim, into every human act. We must have the courage to view the rectilinear cities of America with admiration. If the xsthete has not so far done so, the moralist, on the contrary, may well find more food ...
... human energy is directed: they should be ordered, otherwise they counteract the fundamental principles round which we revolve; if they are not ordered, they oppose themselves to us, they thwart us, as the nature all around us thwarts us ...