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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... mean a loss of J£150,000, and the derangement of eoeiyhody's afiairs tosts no less than £ 3 00,000. Now, for a moment we look at our great cities—at London, you like—as machines, we shall find that they do not funetion as they ought to ...
... mean and unu/orthy. The whole urhan scene is one of wasted opportunities and ineficiency. If we consider the question of hour the modern city is to he made to function under the conditions of to-day, we shall find ourselves forced to A ...
... means of ohtaining light and air. “Many of the expedients put forward to solve the trayfie prohlem are doomed to failure heeause they are designed solely to relieve traflie and have no regard for the other funetions of a street. For ...
... means, created hy ourselves, wherehy we perceive the external world and express the world within us. Geometry is the foundation. It is also the material hasis on which we huild those symhols which represent to us perfection and the ...
... means of every kind of quibble the themselves and from others the lessons ages, and to escape from the fatality and inevitability of human affairs and events. folly of narrow minds.1 1 From this an “ . But I would reply,” he says, time ...