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Article: Urban planning/utopian dreaming: Le Corbusier's Chandigarh today *. (Essays).
- Article from:
- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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On the day when contemporary society, at present so sick, has become
properly aware that only architecture and city planning can provide the
exact prescription for its ills, then the time will have come for the great
machine to be put in motion and begin its functions.... The house that can
be built for modern man (and the city too), a magnificently disciplined
machine, can bring back the liberty of the individual--at present crushed
out of existence--to each and every member of society. (Le Corbusier, The
Radiant City 143)
The critique of the utopian view of modernism, its imperialistic vision,
and the manner in which it has been ...