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 To-morrow 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 well as anyone interested in their planning; here is a probing survey of the problems of modern urban life and a master architects stimulating vision of how they might be solved; enlivened by the innovative spirit and passionate creativity that distinguished all of Le Corbusiers work.
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