Abstract

The City of Dreams

The article presents information on the book "The City of Tomorrow," by Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier is one of the most successful architects of France and one of the greatest exponents of modern architectural theory. A good many pages are devoted to showing that life in a modern apartment is superior in convenience and hygiene to life in an old-fashioned house. More space is then taken by a quasi-philosophical hymn to the spirit of order. The idea is to utilize the skyscraper to combine the virtues of urban and rural living. He would have one large building replace a number of small ones, and of the ground thus saved he should make a park. The whole city built in this way would be a great park traversed by wide roads and containing at intervals vast structures.