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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... societ , which will in the end arrive at a magnificent expression of its power. We helieve in it. Its power is like a torrent swollen hy storms; a destructive fury. The city is crumhling, it cannot last much longer ,' FOREWORD xxiii.
... nothing hut a relic. Should we set out to he old .9 Old / The twentieth century in Europe may well he the magnificent ripening of a civilization. Old Europe is not old at all. These are only words. Old Europe Xxvi FOREWORD.
... magnificent effort ! Man has always done this, and he has built his houses and his towns. Human order, a geometrical thing, reigns in them, and has always done so ; it is the mark of great civilizations, and has left dazzling landmarks ...
... magnificent effort, gave itself up to analysis and experiment and created an equipment which was entirely new, formidable, revolutionary and destined to revolutionize society. We are the heirs of that effort ; we are aware of our modern ...
... magnificent results. It is all most deceptive. The poet stands there, judging and discerning the permanence of these enterprises; he is at the opposite pole to addition sums, and the undulating curve he follows is that of the passions ...