36. Le corbusier • La ville contemporaine (Concentric city) 1922 -Three zones • Central city • Protected green belt • Factories & satellite towns
37. • Central city Rectangle containing two cross axial highways At its heart was a six-level transport interchange – centre for motor, rail lines (underground and main-line railways) and roof of which is air-field 24 cruciform skyscrapers – 60 storeyed office building with density 1200 ppa and covers 5% of the ground Surrounding skyscrapers was apartment district – 8 storey buildings arranged in zigzag rows with broad openspaces with density of 120 people.
38. La ville radiuse (radiant city) • Le corbusier rearranged the key features of the Ville Contemporaine. • The basic ideas of free circulation and greenery were still present, but the just position of different land-uses had changed. • For example, the central area was now residential instead of a skyscraper office core.
39. • The skyscrapers (business area) of the Ville Contemporaine were rearranged away from the city center at the ‘head’…The ‘body’ was made up of acres of housing strips laid out in a stepping plan to generate semi-courts and harbours of greenery containing tennis courts, playing fields and paths. • Traffic pattern – an orthogonal system with super imposed diagonals & the civic center is on the main axis • Light manufacturing, freight yards and heavy industries at the bottom
40. • Through the 1920s and 1930s, modern “master” Le Corbusier experimented with a series of highly utopian urban planning concepts, stemming from his visions of an ideal city that hoped to reunite citizens with a highly ordered and open environment, elevating culture on a universal basis. • In 1925, he proposed the "Plan Voisin," an idealistic mega-project that called for the bulldozing of central Paris and replacing it with monolithic 60- story towers set within an organized street grid and ample green space. • Corbusier believed the efficient plan could transform society by raising the standard of living for all socioeconomic levels, thus sparing the country another revolution. • The plan was outright rejected.