The city of to-morrow and its planning / by Le Corbusier ; translated from the 8th French edition of Urbanisme and with an introduction by Frederick Etchells.

Main entry:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.

Title & Author:

The city of to-morrow and its planning / by Le Corbusier ; translated from the 8th French edition of Urbanisme and with an introduction by Frederick Etchells.

Publication:

New York : Dover, 1987.

Description:

xxvii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
An unabridged and slightly altered republication of the work originally published by Payson & Clarke Ltd, New York, n.d. [1929].
I: General considerations -- The pack-donkey's way and man's way -- Order -- Sensibility comes into play -- Permanence -- Classification and choice (A survey) -- Classification and choice (timely decisions) -- The great city -- Statistics -- Newspaper cuttings and catchwords -- Our technical equipment -- II: Laboratory work: an inquiry into theory -- A contemporary city -- The working day -- The hours of repose -- A concrete case: the centre of Paris -- Physic or surgery -- The centre of Paris -- Finance and realization.
Also issued online.
Translation of: Urbanisme.

Summary:

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 shape our world. Le Corbusier articulates concepts and ideas he would put to work in his city planning schemes for Algiers, Sao 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.

Resources:
E-book - Full text from Ebook Central
Publisher description

ISBN:

0486253325 (pbk.)
9780486253329 (pbk.)

Subject:

Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Aesthetics.
City planning Forecasting.
City planning History 20th century.
City planning.
Stadtplanung

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Etchells, Frederick, translator, writer of introduction.

City of tomorrow and its planning

Holdings:

Location: Library main 9576
Call No.: ID:87-B13587
Status: Available

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