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The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning

by Le Corbusier
The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning
The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning

Visionary urban planning, transformative architectural perspectives.

If you're fascinated by the evolution of cities and how visionary ideas can shape the future, Le Corbusier’s 'The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning' would be an enlightening read. It's a seminal work that melds audacious design concepts with practical urban solutions, offering insights into the very foundations of modern city planning. This book could change the way you view the streets and buildings around you, giving a historical context to the modernist landscape we inhabit today.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning

by Le Corbusier
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ISBN: 9780486253329
Authors: Le Corbusier
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date of Publication: 1987-04-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art
Related Topics: Architecture, Design
Goodreads rating: 3.92
(rated by 564 readers)

Description

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. Today it is revered as a work that, quite literally, helped to shape our world. Le Corbusier articulates concepts and ideas he would put to work in his city planning schemes for Algiers, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Geneva, Stockholm, and Antwerp, as well as schemes for a variety of structures from a museum in Tokyo to the United Nations buildings. The influence it exerted on a new generation of architects is now legendary. The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning characterizes European cities as a chaos of poor design, inadequate housing, and inefficient transportation that grew out of the unplanned jumble of medieval cities. Developing his thesis that a great modern city can only function on a basis of strict order, Le Corbusier presents two imposing schemes for urban reconstruction — the "Voisin" scheme for the center of Paris, and his more developed plans for the "City of Three Million Inhabitants," which envisioned, among other things, 60-story skyscrapers, set well apart, to house commercial activities, and residential housing grouped in great blocks of "villas." For those who live in cities as
 

Visionary urban planning, transformative architectural perspectives.

If you're fascinated by the evolution of cities and how visionary ideas can shape the future, Le Corbusier’s 'The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning' would be an enlightening read. It's a seminal work that melds audacious design concepts with practical urban solutions, offering insights into the very foundations of modern city planning. This book could change the way you view the streets and buildings around you, giving a historical context to the modernist landscape we inhabit today.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.