The City of To-morrow and Its Planning (Dover Architecture)

This book written in 1924, shows you how cities came about, how they evolved over time. how architecture evolved from roman, threw the middle ages to what we have to day. The single best "over view" book on what cities are, and should be mandatory in all high school and collage civics / government / world history classes. The illustrations in this book look like modern sky scrapers... till you notice the WWI biplane flying past. A man ahead of his time and still ahead of our modern cities.

Very nice & easy to read & informative

Very interesting. Must read and must have for planners.

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I am glad LeCorbusier never built a city where all the roads would be underground and watering cans would be illegal. A very strange man.

Le Corbusier has a dream for Paris, and it is a really interesting and unusual one. He creates a model for the cities, and his model has been living for almost a century. Although, you may reject to see it built, put aside living in it, it is a complete (well, almost complete) model. In this book, Le Corbusier presents his model city in detail from streets to building codes. He not only talks about the physical structure, but also the life style it would create. The mass of the city scares you, but you admire how he defends his vision, which is strong and bold, just like the book itself.

Le Corbusier had terrible ideas. His ideology has been mindlessly copied and codified to the point where we inhabit nothing but fragmented spaces. His vision of the future is our current nightmare that has lead to planetary ruin. All that can be said in his favor is that Le Corbusier perhaps had no way of predicting the endless streams of waste; vast meaningless spaces; and climate-wrecking smog to which his vision would give rise. The mind-numbing banality should have been obvious.

Disclaimer: I have not read this. However, I don't need to. Just look at all of the high-rise public housing projects that used this book as a blueprint and how they have fared (hint: disastrously) to understand the success of the opinions within. He had absolutely no understanding about what makes cities work because he had very little understanding of humans. His mission was to exalt the machine...period. Plain and simple the guy was a kook, whose passionate prose was tragically interpreted as genius, much to the detriment of humanity. Save your time and money and stay away from this guy. His influence will continue to diminish. Only read if you want to pinpoint the inspiration behind virtually all that's bad about the built environment in your area.

Le Corbusier dit-on est un mégalomane. Soit mais même un mégalomane sait ou se trouve les limites de la risibilité. Il est enfantin, bête, inconscient a tel point qu’il ne voit pas qu’il est ridicule et comique et caricatural. Mais le problème c’est qu’il a trouvé des gens pour se faire lire et écouter. Ça c’est un premier point, mais en vérité c’est un projet des fascistes de Georges Valois, avant-garde moderniste et fasciste. Un livre à acheter pour garder sous-clés à moins que l’on utilise comme un contre exemple de ce que l’on doit jamais oser faire.

This is a all-time classics for all students of architecture, urbanism, town planning etc

The book was more damaged then what I expected. But it doesn't matter since it was only on the outside.Besides that, I find the book very interesting if you want to find out more about the modernist age and