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Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret
Urban Schemes
by Franz Sdoutz
Online since May 2008
Last changes: 4th of July 2010


'Ville Contemporaine' View of the station square - 1922, Le Corbusier LE CORBUSIER - 1972, Willy Boesiger (Editor)
I.) Img. _01

» […] We are in the very centre of the city, the point of greatest density of population and traffic; there is any amount of room for both. […] « III.) 1


1922 Ville Contemporaine
'A Contemporary City of Three Million Inhabitants'

http://utopies.skynetblogs.be/
http://www.athenaeum.ch/
http://edu.saline.free.fr/
http://tesugen.com/

PDF
Innsbruck
http://courses.washington.edu/

JPG
http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/
http://morrischia.com/
http://xoomer.alice.it/
http://falcon.jmu.edu/
http://www.freebase.com/
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/ 2 3

VIDEO
Innsbruck (Quicktime, German)
http://www.youtube.com/

'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 ] «


» 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


1925 Frugès garden-city in Pessac (Bordeaux, France)

http://lecorbusier.cv-aurelien.com/

JPG
http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/
http://www.google.com/
http://www.flickr.com/
http://dlhtms.net63.net/ […]
http://www.ifa.de/ 2 […]

Video
http://www.ina.fr/

'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]
III.) Img. _04

» Here is the solution proposed by the 'Voisin' Scheme. Here are the districts which it [.] proposed to demolish and those which it [.] suggested should be built in their place. Both plans are to the same scale. «

Geoposition
+48° 51' 37.68", +2° 21' 9.08"
http://maps.live.com/
The "irregular void" ['rue Beau Bourg' ? straightened 1911 - as depicted in the areal photography] absorbed 1934-36 by 'plateau Beaubourg' […] today locates the Centre Georges Pompidou; the cut through traffic artery superimposes Haussmann's mid 19 century Boulevard de Sébastopol.

1925 Plan Voisin
http://www.airsdeparis.centrepompidou.fr/

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http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/
http://www.flickr.com/ 2 3
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/

VIDEO
http://myspacetv.com/
http://www.youtube.com/ ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/ ;-)


'Urban planning for the city of Algiers, Project A, known as the Obus Project' View of the model - 1930, Le Corbusier LE CORBUSIER - 1972, Willy Boesiger (Herausgeber)
I.) Img. _02


1930 Algier

http://www.tu-cottbus.de/ (German)
http://www.escholarship.org/
http://www.bidoun.com/
http://www.planum.net/
http://books.google.at/

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http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/
http://www.focus.de/ […]
http://www.moma.org/
http://falcon.jmu.edu/

VIDEO
Innsbruck (Quicktime, German)


1930-35 Ville radieuse

http://www.polwiss.fu-berlin.de/ (German)
http://parole.aporee.org/

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http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/
http://xoomer.alice.it/
http://expositions.bnf.fr/
http://www.cittasostenibili.it/ […]


1935 Zlín [for the Baťa corporation]

http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/

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http://www.zlin.estranky.cz/ 2 […]
http://www.zlin.eu/

'Hellocourt' [for the Baťa corporation] 1936 by Le Corbusier, netpic
IV.) Img. _06

Label: » BA 3432
URBANISATION D'HELLOCOURT «


1935 Hellocourt [for the Baťa corporation]

http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/ [1935]

JPG
http://arkinetblog.wordpress.com/ [18 July 1936 …]
http://architektura.muratorplus.pl/

'Chandigarh' current city map - 2008, Google Maps
II.) Img. _03

Geoposition
+30° 44' 16.01", +76° 47' 3.98"

1950 - 1965 Chandigarh:

http://whc.unesco.org/

VIDEO
http://de.youtube.com/
http://video.google.de/
http://www.dailymotion.com/
http://www.kewego.de/

JPG
http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/ 2
http://bp2.blogger.com/

1958 International urban development competition for Berlin

http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/

Video
http://www.art-in-berlin.de/ (German)

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References:

  1. '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/
  2. Google Maps - 2008
    Img. _03 current city map of Chandigarh, Punjab, India
    http://maps.google.com/
  3. '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]

  4. Img. _ 06 'Hellocourt' project for the Baťa corporation in France 1936. [Netpic from http://arkinetblog.wordpress.com/]

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Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://www.lecorbusier.fr/
http://www.centerlecorbusier.com/
http://eng.archinform.net/
http://www.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de/ (German)
http://www.open2.net/
http://www.whoswho.de/ (German)
http://www.vobiscum.net/
http://www.uky.edu/

JPG
http://agram.saariste.nl/ (image database)

PDF
http://www.andreas.krasser.com/ (German)
http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/ 2 […] (German)

VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/ (German)
http://vernissage-tv.com/ 2
Innsbruck ( part 1, part 2, III, IV ) GERMAN only!
http://www.art-in-berlin.de/ (German)
http://video.google.de/
http://v.youku.com/
http://www.zappinternet.com/

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