Planning Concepts of

Le Corbusier
Ville Contemporaine
(Contemporary City)

 Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
One of the most prominent
architects of the 20th
century.
Self-proclaimed townplanner
His building designs are
certainly embedded and
celebrated in architectural
history
His critics have been
considerably less flattering
in their comments on his
city planning.

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 first comprehensive
urban-planning
Salon dAutomne in
Paris : the Contemporary
City for Three Million
Inhabitants

Ville
Contemporaine
(Contemporary
City)

No matter how open and green, cities

should be frankly urban
Density itself is not a problem
Slums exist because of the failure to provide
the proper surrounding for high density living
He protests against strict functionalism

POPULATION

Citizens are of the city: those who work and live in it.
Suburban dwellers are those who work in the outer
industrial zone and who do not come into the city: they
live in garden cities
The mixed sort are those who work in the business parts
of the city but bring up their families in garden cities.
This would enable us to formulate and resolve the
following
problems:
The city, as a bussiness and residential centre,
The industrial city in relation to the garden cities(i.e, the
question of transport)
The garden cities and the daily transport of the workers.

TRAFFIC
If we classify traffic we get:
Heavy goods traffic : Below ground
Lighter goods traffic, i.e vans, etc.,
which make
short journeys in all directions : on
ground
Fast traffic, which covers a large
section of the town : on bridges,
running north and south, and east to
west.

Our first requirement will be an organ

that is compact, rapid, lively and
concentrated: this is the city with its well
organised centre.
Our second requirement will be another
organ, supple, existence and elastic; this
is the garden city on the periphery.
Lying between these two organs, we
must require the legal establishment of
that absolute necessity, a protective
zone which allows of extension, a
reserved zone of woods and fields, a
fresh-air reserve.

Central city
Protected Green Belt
Factories and Satellite
towns

Submitted by: Shikha Verma

MURP, Ist SEM

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