RADIANT CITY LE CORBUSIER

originally Charles-Edouard Jeanneret 1887-1965 a founding father of the modernist movement social engineering

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RADIANT CITY THE CITY OF TOWERS The Corbusian Radiant city : Paris, Chandigarh, Brasilia, London, St. Louis 1920-1970

The man who had a great impact on the 20th century city planning, the results of the planning ranging from raising questions to being catastrophic. MALVIYA NATIONAL INSITUITE OF TECHNOLOGY - JAIPUR

RADIANT CITY BACKGROUND

A swiss born architect who hailed from a watch makers family. The author attributes this fact to his ideology on town planning where he calls the town as a tool and house as a machine to live in
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RADIANT CITY Paris

THE CITY OF TOWERS

19th century Paris was chaotic where centralized despotic order prevailed. Slums and diseases were rampant.

The living conditions were pathetic.

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RADIANT CITY PLAN VISION

Le Corbusier proposed to build from scratch.

He proposed to run a bulldozer over the existing city, reserving only a few precious historic monuments and building on a clear site.

This caused a great outcry in the city council and he was termed a barbarian, but he could not figure out why because for him, that was the only right way to do it.

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RADIANT CITY THE CITY OF TOWERS

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RADIANT CITY ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN

1. Decongest city centre, yet increase density by building high.

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RADIANT CITY ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN

The more dense the population of a city is the less are the distances that have to be covered. traffic is increased by:
the number of people in a city the degree to which private transportation is more appealing (clean, fast, convenient, cheap) than public transportation the average distance people travel per trip the number of trips people must make each week

Therefore, is that we must increase the density of the centres of our cities, where business affairs are carried on.

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RADIANT CITY ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN CENTRE CITY

All the industrialist, scientist and artist were intended to have offices in the 24 sky scrapers located in the core of the city. These towers provided work space for 4,00,000 to 6,00,000 people leaving 95 percent of the ground area open. (Density of 1200 people / acre) This left 95 percent open ground.

OUTSIDE CENTRE CITY Residential areas were planned mainly of two types: I. Six storied luxury apartment designed on step back principal (in rows) with 85 percent ground left open II. More modest accommodations for workers, built around courtyards on a uniform grid iron street with 48 percent ground left open.

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RADIANT CITY ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN

The city centre had the sky scrapers that held the work places. This place had all the restaurants, theatres, shopping complexes and other community functions. The residential area was away; surrounded by green belt. There was a playground in front of each house, where the family could play or exercise after work. MALVIYA NATIONAL INSITUITE OF TECHNOLOGY - JAIPUR

RADIANT CITY ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN

The Green space was between

48% and 95% of the surface and was reserved for:
Gardens Squares sports fields Restaurants theaters

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RADIANT CITY RESIDENTIAL SPACES The Unites service apartments

Equal opportunities for all residents.

The woman of the house was given a lot of importance, by the open kitchen layout and the provision of domestic help in the service apartment, as well as the delivery of grocery at home.

Alas, the society was not ready for this drastic change in their lifestyle
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RADIANT CITY ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN

For residences, he proposed the cells. These cells follow anthropometry to the letter.

But the people could not accept this as they were not used to something so stark and bare minimum.

They also did not like the fact that they were being forced to adopt a lifestyle of the architects will

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