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Analysis of urban problems and two most famous schemes for modern city reconstruction. Introduction. 133 b/w illus. 82 b/w halftones.<BR>
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Analyzes the old structure of cities, suggests a new approach to city planning, and shows specific street and building plans.
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When reading this book I was shocked about the superficial and almost primitive analysis, on which a vast amount of last centuries city planning was based. The first part almost only consists of incoherent and unscientific postulations of the legitimacy of the right angle as doctrine for planning, while the second part focuses on a practical approach of how to reduce a city to a place for sleeping, working and driving while thwarting any form of culture by burying it under a ridiculous desert of parks. "We must plant trees" is Le Corbusiers answer on every human question, while his answer on every structural question is the right angle.
The social hirachy that is implicated in his ideas is frightening. I gave this book 2 Stars because it gives an understanding of the planning faliures of the last century. Still, the rare content, the primitive scientific methods (which I would not even call "scientific" or "methods")used, the almost pathetic way to advocate his personal, static ideas and the total denial of the city as a growing organism makes this book one of the most overrated books I've read and I would recommend to spend your 11 Euros elsewhere.
The social hirachy that is implicated in his ideas is frightening. I gave this book 2 Stars because it gives an understanding of the planning faliures of the last century. Still, the rare content, the primitive scientific methods (which I would not even call "scientific" or "methods")used, the almost pathetic way to advocate his personal, static ideas and the total denial of the city as a growing organism makes this book one of the most overrated books I've read and I would recommend to spend your 11 Euros elsewhere.
Format:Taschenbuch
As an architecture student interested in the "art" of city planning, I found this book fascinating! Gives Le Corbusier's "radical" views and ideas plenty of substantive support. It is not only a book of design theory, but a book of urban history. Even if you're not too fond of Corbusier's work, this is a must-read for anyone interested in architecture!
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ONE OF THE CLASSIC BOOKS BY A KEY MODERN ARCHITECT
13. Januar 2010
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The French architect Le Corbusier (1887-1965; born in Switzerland as Charles Edouard Jeanneret) wrote this book in 1929, in which he proposed what he called the "Radiant City." Unlike Ebenezer Howard (Garden Cities of To-morrow) and Frank Lloyd Wright (The Natural House), Corbusier supported industrialization and the machine as inevitable, glorified plain skyscrapers ("New York is wrong, but the skyscraper remains a noble instrument"), while enthusiastically supporting modern engineering methods and the use of synthetic building materials.
He begins the Foreward by stating, "A Town is a tool. Towns no longer fulfil this function. They are ineffectual... A city! It is the grip of man upon nature. It is a human operation directed against nature, a human organism both for protection and for work. It is a creation." He asserts that town planning "is bound to become one of the burning questions of the day." "The city of to-day is a dying thing because it is not geometrical. To build in the open would be to replace our present haphazard arrangements, which are all we have to-day, by a uniform lay-out. Unless we do this there is no salvation. The result of a true geometrical lay-out is repetition." He concludes, "Therefore the existing centres must come down. To save itself, every great city must rebuild its centre." Rather than wasting time by commuting to the city, each apartment block would contain services such as child care and food preparation.
His philosophy of efficiency and simplicity in form and functionality (perhaps exemplified in his prefabricated apartment buildings, and predilection for reinforced concrete) were highly influential in the United States (he was one of the architects who designed the United Nations building, for example), as well as elsewhere.
He observes, "immense industrial undertakings do not require great men. Such works are carried out in the same way as rain fills a water-butt, drop by drop; and the men who bring them to completion are small, like raindrops, and not great like torrents.... The torrent is in MANKIND, it is not the individuals themselves."
In conclusion, he writes, "I invent no utopia in which to build my city. I assert that its proper place is here, and nothing will remove it. If I affirm this so categorically it is because I am aware of our human limitations, aware that we have not the power to begin all over again build our City as we will elsewhere. To desire such a thing is to be reactionary, and to persist in it would make the whole scheme an impossibility. Therefore it must be here."
He begins the Foreward by stating, "A Town is a tool. Towns no longer fulfil this function. They are ineffectual... A city! It is the grip of man upon nature. It is a human operation directed against nature, a human organism both for protection and for work. It is a creation." He asserts that town planning "is bound to become one of the burning questions of the day." "The city of to-day is a dying thing because it is not geometrical. To build in the open would be to replace our present haphazard arrangements, which are all we have to-day, by a uniform lay-out. Unless we do this there is no salvation. The result of a true geometrical lay-out is repetition." He concludes, "Therefore the existing centres must come down. To save itself, every great city must rebuild its centre." Rather than wasting time by commuting to the city, each apartment block would contain services such as child care and food preparation.
His philosophy of efficiency and simplicity in form and functionality (perhaps exemplified in his prefabricated apartment buildings, and predilection for reinforced concrete) were highly influential in the United States (he was one of the architects who designed the United Nations building, for example), as well as elsewhere.
He observes, "immense industrial undertakings do not require great men. Such works are carried out in the same way as rain fills a water-butt, drop by drop; and the men who bring them to completion are small, like raindrops, and not great like torrents.... The torrent is in MANKIND, it is not the individuals themselves."
In conclusion, he writes, "I invent no utopia in which to build my city. I assert that its proper place is here, and nothing will remove it. If I affirm this so categorically it is because I am aware of our human limitations, aware that we have not the power to begin all over again build our City as we will elsewhere. To desire such a thing is to be reactionary, and to persist in it would make the whole scheme an impossibility. Therefore it must be here."
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Must-read for any architecture buff!
5. September 1999
Format:Taschenbuch
As an architecture student interested in the "art" of city planning, I found this book fascinating! Gives Le Corbusier's "radical" views and ideas plenty of substantive support. It is not only a book of design theory, but a book of urban history. Even if you're not too fond of Corbusier's work, this is a must-read for anyone interested in architecture!
How and why city's evolved.
28. Februar 2012
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This book written in 1924, shows you how cities came about, how they evolved over time. how architecture evolved from roman, threw the middle ages to what we have to day. The single best "over view" book on what cities are, and should be mandatory in all high school and collage civics / government / world history classes. The illustrations in this book look like modern sky scrapers... till you notice the WWI biplane flying past. A man ahead of his time and still ahead of our modern cities.
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