The towns of today can only increase in density at the expense of the open spaces which are the

lungs of the city. We must in- crease the opens spaces and diminish the distances to be covered.
Therefore the centre of the city must be constructed vertically. The city’s residential quarters must
no longer be built along “corridor streets,” full of noise and dust and deprived of light.”

- Le Corbusier, City of Tomorrow 1924
 Ville Contemporaine
The notion of zoning: a strict division of the city into segregated commercial, business, entertainment
and residential areas. The business district was located in the center, and contained monolithic mega-
skyscrapers, each reaching a height of 200 meters and accommodating five to eight hundred thousand
people. Located in the center of this civic district was the main transportation deck, from which a vast
underground system of trains would transport citizens to and from the surrounding housing districts.
Fundamental principles:
1. Decongestion of the centers of cities;
2. Increase of the density;
3. Enlargement of the means of circulation;
4. Enlargement of the landscaped areas.

In the center, the station with landing platform for flying taxis. North-south and east-west-the large
express route for rapid vehicular traffic (vehicular overpass 120 ft. wide).

At the foot of the skyscrapers and all around, a large open place 7200 ft. x 4500 ft. (32.400.000 sq.
ft.) covered with gardens and parks. In the parks, at the foot of and around the skyscrapers, the
restaurants, cafés, luxury shops, buildings with two or three terraces arranged for seating; theatres,
halls, etc.; open-air or covered garages. The skyscrapers house commercial premises. Concept sketches
The VIlle Radieuse was dedicated to the idea that harmony could be found within
To the left: the large public edifices: museums, city hall, public service buildings. Further to the left industrialism by finding the right balance between individual, family and the public
is the English gardien (the English garden is destined to be the logical extension of the heart of the order of the state; between built form and open space; between city and nature”
city).

To the right: serviced by one of the branches of the large traffic artery are the docks and industrial
areas with freight stations and depots. Encircling the city: free zone, woods and fields. Behind: the
belt of garden-cities.

The City:
Twenty-four skyscrapers could contain between 10.000 and 50.000 employees each.
City dwellings-600,000 inhabitants quartered in "indented" or "closed" subdivisions.
The garden-cities-2.000.000 inhabitants or more.

Though radical, strict and nearly totalitarian in its order,

symmetry and standardization
• The centerpiece of this plan was a group of sixty-story cruciform skyscrapers
built on steel frames and encased in curtain walls of glass.
• The skyscrapers housed both offices and the flats of the most wealthy
inhabitants.
• These skyscrapers were set within large, rectangular park-like green spaces.
• At the center of the planned city was a transportation hub which housed depots
for buses and trains as well as highway intersections and at the top, an airport.

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

CAFE , RESTAURANTS
an extended urban area, typically
consisting of several towns merging
with the suburbs of a central city.
 Tel Aviv
The Geddes Plan for Tel Aviv was the first master city plan for Tel Aviv. It was designed in
1925-1929 by the Scottish city planner Sir Patrick Geddes. This program designed the center
of Tel Aviv and the area now known as "Old North".
• symmetry —equality to inhabitant

• no decoration useless

• clean design

• simple

• moderning and respecting old tradition

• city must expand to the north

mediterranean sea

• socio-cultural acropolis

• main street- commercial

• secondary street-residential and

-center of each block was communal garden

• main street- commercial

• secondary street-residential and

center of each block was communal

garden

• greenery was an integral part of the Tel

Aviv landscame.
• plan buildings were restricted to taking up
a maximum of only one third of any given
site, these restrictions aimed to ensure
maximum potential for neighborhoods well
endowed with lush greenery.
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