!['RAILWAY SYSTEM: SUBURBAN AND MAIN LINES' from 'The City of To-morrow and Its Planning [Urbanisme]' by Le Corbusier, published by J. Rodker, 1987 [published first 1925]](content/corbusier_contemporary_city_railway_system.gif "'RAILWAY SYSTEM: SUBURBAN AND MAIN LINES' from 'The City of To-morrow and Its Planning [Urbanisme]' by Le Corbusier, published by J. Rodker, 1987 [published first 1925]")
III.) Img. _05
Label: » RAILWAY SYSTEM: SUBURBAN AND MAIN LINES [of a contemporary city]
The inter-urban system; the tubes, following the main arteries; the outer loop system of one-way traffic; the main lines.
[ METROS BANLIEUE GRANDES LIGNES
CITES-JARDINS III.) 3 INDUSTRIE LA CITE ] «
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» DENSITY OF POPULATION
(a) The sky-scraper : 1,200 inhabitants to the acre [4046,8m2].
(b) The residential blocks with set-backs : 120 inhabitants to the acre. These are the luxury dwellings.
(c) The residential blocks on the "cellular" system, with a similar number of inhabitants.
This great density gives us our necessary shortening of distances and ensures rapid intercommunication.
Note.—The average density to the acre [4046,8m2] of Paris in the heart of the town is 146, and of London 63 ; and of the over-crowded quarters of Paris 213, and of London 169.
OPEN SPACES
Of the area (a), 95 per cent of the ground is open (squares, restaurants, theatres).
Of the area (b), 85 per cent. of the ground is open (gardens, sports grounds).
Of the area (c), 48 per cent. of the ground is open (gardens, sport grounds). « III.) 2
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References:
- 'Le Corbusier: Works and Projects' edited by Willy Boesiger, published by Verlag für Architektur, Zürich 1972, Barcelona 1991
Img. _ 01 [page 21] 'Ville Contemporaine' by Le Corbusier, View of the station square - 1922
http://books.google.at/
http://www.lecorbusier.fr/
http://morrischia.com/
Img. _ 02 [page 175] 'Urban planning for the city of Algiers, Project A, known as the Obus Project' by Le Corbusier, View of the model - 1930
http://www.tu-cottbus.de/
http://falcon.jmu.edu/
- Google Maps - 2008
Img. _03 current city map of Chandigarh, Punjab, India
http://maps.google.com/
- 'The City of To-morrow and Its Planning [Urbanisme]' by Le Corbusier, published by J. Rodker, 1987 [published first 1925] http://books.google.at/
Img. _ 04 [page 289] Image top approximates north. [My copy apparently printed Le Corbusier's montage upside down.]
Img. _ 05 [page 181] Railway system of 'a contemporary city'.
1 [page 246] caption for I.) Img. _01 [translated by Frederick Etchells]
2 [page 172] sic!
3 The title of the English translation from 1929 [non native speakers would have expected 'Urbanism'] hints at: 'Garden Cities of To-morrow' by Ebenezer Howard [title and spelling of the popular 1902 edition] Reference, reaction or strategic publishing … such bibliographic proximity is simply too ingenious to be accounted for by error or coincidence.
Compare Corbusier's 'RAILWAY SYSTEM' [Img. _ 05] to Howard's 'Social City'. [1898]
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!['Voisin Plan' districts to be demolished and their replacement in the same scale - 1925 by Le Corbusier, 'The City of To-morrow and Its Planning [Urbanisme]' by Le Corbusier, published by J. Rodker, 1987 [published first 1925]](content/voisin_plan_1925.gif "'Voisin Plan' districts to be demolished and their replacement in the same scale - 1925 by Le Corbusier, 'The City of To-morrow and Its Planning [Urbanisme]' by Le Corbusier, published by J. Rodker, 1987 [published first 1925]")
