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Collage 1: Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse

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These are a series of collages that are meant to be read in conjunction with one another as a statement on Utopia vs Reality in planned public housing estates.(Interim submission for Env.Design class)

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Page 1: Collage 1: Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse

VILLE RADIEUSEthe ground first, covered with vegetation; the rivers of traffic crossing it, and the parking harbors surrounded by trees. Here is an expressway on its pilotis disappearing in the distance.

Dominating the trees, or in the midst of their brances, between leaves and lawns, the “elevated” streets

buildings with two or three setbacks, with cafes, shops, pedestrian walks Here is the skyscraper all in crystal and shining in the atmosphere ...

Here is the real view of the intense, the ardent modern city: a symphony of greenery

See with what poetry progress has animated us... for a new period has begun, animated by a new spirit