from: The Blackwell City Reader, Ed. Jary Bridge & Sophie watson. pp. 20-29. 2.002. i_——— S77 [THE CITY oF TomorRow AND ITS PLANIN/N NINE k Salon d'Automne,i37z, P TOW LALALALAA.. MY Work Fog A CONTEMPORARY CITY OF SMILLION INHABI — TANTS WAS SHowN jy NOVEMBER 1922 AT THE SALON D'AUTOMNE IN PARIS. Tye SHock DF SURPRISE CAUSED RAQE AND ENTHUSIASM. (...) MY OBJECT WAS To ComsTRUcT A THEORETLOALLY .WATER- 119HT FoRmULA To Arrive AY THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES oF MODERN Town, PLANNING. 1926 9/217THE WILD BEAST |S THE QREAT CITY. IT IS INFINITELY MORE PowERFUL. AND IT 1S JuST RESINAINS 7? WAKE. SITE A cever site Js THE IDEAL SITE. THE RIVER Flows FAR FROM THE ciTy, THE RIVER 1S A KIND oF LIBUID RAILWAY, POPULATION @. THOSE WHO WORK AND Live IN IT, b, SuBURBAN DWELEERS—THEY LIVE IN GARDEN CITIES. C. THE MIXED SoRT— THEY WORK IN THE BUSINESS PARTS BuT BRING UP THEI FAMILIES IN SARDEN CITIES, Tae CITY 49: 4, A BUSINESS AND RESITEN- TIAL CENTRE. oo Bey ea INDUSTRIAL CITY /N RELATION To THE ea CITIES. . THE DAROEN Gua een eel AND THE aL TRANSPORT OF Gua een eel RESERVED ZONE i PERIPHERY COMPACT, RAPID, woos, FIELDS i SUPPLE, EXTEN SIVE LIVELY, CONCENTRATE! FRESH AR ZONE i ELASTIC. CENTRE GARDEN CITYWE MuST /NCREASE THE OPEN SPACES AND DIMINISH THE DISTANCES To BE COVERED. THEREFORE THE CENTRE OF THE CITY MUST BE CONSTRUCTED VERTICALLY. FULL eF NOISE, DUST, DEPRIVED OF LIGHT Away Fae NO SMALL CouRTYARDS| WINDOWS LooK- IN ON LARGE THE MODERN STREET IN THE TRuE fe] SENSE OF THE WORD IS A NEW TYPE OF ORGANISM, A SORT OF STRETCHED OUT WORKSHOP (...) THEY DUGHT TOBE ACCESSIALE THROUGHOUT THEIR LENGTH. THE VARIOUS STORENS OF THE STRETCHED - OUT WORKSHOP WILL EACH HAVE THEIR TARTICULAR FUNCTION. THE coreivoe-sreeet SHOULD BE ToLeRA- TED NO LongbRTRAFFIC 1 To- Rm DAY DYNAMITE FLUNG INTO RHE STALET | ABovE BELOW & GouND : | ARTERIES ABOVE GROUND LeveL BELOW. GRoUND HEANY TRAFFIC. GROUND Lever — COMPLICATED & DELICATE NETWORK OF THE ORDINARY STREETS — IN EveRy DIRECTION. HEANY Goons LIGHTER Goons oto] | tsnree 6 BELOW arouny STAGET FOR HEAVY TRAFFIC, CONSISTS MERELY OF CONCRETE PILES. LARGE OTEN SPACES LOAD & UNLOAD HEANY Goons. ABOVE Grounn— Two GREAT AXES OF THE CITY, ARTERIAL ROADS FOR FAST ONE-WAN TRAFFIC. EVEN AT THE HIGHEST SPEEDS, THE TOWN CAN BE TRAVERSED AND THE SUBURBS REACHED WitHouT HAVING To NEqoTIATE ANY CR0SS-ROADS... 1934 9/224THE NUMBER OF EXISTIND STREETS EES es THE TAAMWAN HAS NO RIGHT | TO EXIST AT THE HEART OF THE MODERN CITY, A 4 9RID DF 40D YARDS FoR A CROSSIND WH STATION AT THE CENTRE me MAIN ARES | 4] FAST TRAFFIC IN TUBES NE] TONE way Loop SISTEM — SuBUEBANY el] TT FoR MAIN LINES Foe PRovINCE S$. A VERTICAL HIERARCHY Foe ~ | TRANS PORT THERE 15 ONLY DNE STATION, | TIS AT THE CENTRE. THERE 19 HA phe BEG wh Beh LUT 5 17 ELSEWHERE. | —— - = —— SeMAIN ACTEUES GovND Lever SURVGRAN TRAFFIC MAIN AiaPot T THe PLAN oF THe CITY ——=———==== 4. PE-CONJESTION oF CENTRES == Lan a. AVJMENTING DENSITS gee 4, INCREASINS MERNS aiefeie| bd 4, INCREASING OPEN SPACES 3] fF MEQA- BLOCKS: “SKYSCRAPERS” BUSINESS BLOCKS -A RESTAURANES CAFES LUKURY SHOPS THEATERS HALLS PARKING PLACES P ip l ARICS 400 x 2400 yards Lm 4400x2300 m. J AVENUES rv 9.500.000 vn> 0 3,5 km 1798b Main STATION k AE RODIME > GREAT PuBLic BuiLpINIS > Museums hm MUNICIPAL OFFICES pm ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES P WARE Houses pINDUSTZIAL QUARTERS peJoods STATIONS LANDINS ~ATFOLM (A) B | entaEsou- mezzanine. (B BASEMENT (D) Sub- BASEMENT (E) Suh-SUB- BASEMEN F— THE ; LANOINS TLATPORI ; ; 190. 0.000 Housind 40.000 To 50.000 EMPLONEES| CBUSINESS ‘XR 400.000 600.000 HoTEL | RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS GARDEN CITIES FE THREE MILLION. ac ae CITY oF Tomorrow, Tie NOT, Bei AA es ao & C%10] 1%Paris (4146 | amt LoNPonN oe 2K DENSITY 0F DOWNTOWN PER ACRE oat tL eS Siw snoise SKYSCAPERS | | 4,200 /ACRE ————, 12 Storeys high RESIDENTIAL 1a0/ACRE DEN SITY JACKE RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS 6X2 floors RESTAURANTS THEATAES JARDENS Sfoats hanging garden $- servic: e no wells 01 ther sides immense park $. GARIN CiTeS © BUILT IN THE OPEN + PURELY FEOMETLIC + REPETITIVE - UNIFORMITY “INDUSTRIALIZED aX # COSTS FALL %~%0 #THE WHoLE CIty 16 A PARK 2 re a Low BvILAINSS OF A Hooks — ZONTAL KIND LEAD TRE EYE ON TD THE FOUASE OF THE TREES HERE 15 THe CTY WITH ITS CRowpsS LIVIN IN PEACE AND PURE Ai ay, : |] THE CHAOS oF eo ji NEW Yoni WHERE Noise |S x is tas SMOTHERED UNDER OVERCOME, Ha. JHE TREES ae HERE, BATHED IW LgHT, STANSTHE MODERN AN SKY EVERIWHERER| AS FARAS THE EYE CAN THEIR DUTLINES SOFTENED BY DISTANCE, THE SIKY- SCRAPERS RAISE IMMENSE QEOmET- RICAL FAGADES Adc OF 9LASS, AND IN THEM IO REFLECTED THE BLUE SLORY OF THE SKY. (...) IMMENSE Bul RADIANT PRISMS. 1942. 9 [235