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was this ever actually tried?

wahern 2y ago
Yes, in just about every large city across the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, especially in cities, and newer parts of older cities, that were developed since the 1950s. It still influences contemporary architecture and city layout, though today maybe it's less deliberate (i.e. artistic, conceptual) and more a consequence of car culture and not wanting to crowd tall skyscrapers. So you just turn all the empty space between skyscrapers into "park", which almost invariably becomes desolate green space. It's the status quo even though the original concept has become largely discredited (or at least lacking for advocates) among the urban planning crowd and, to a lesser extent, architects (the effect frames their buildings as monoliths, easier to be admired as signature pieces). It originates with Le Corbusier and his Radiant City concept from the 1930s. See https://99percentinvisible.org/article/ville-radieuse-le-corbusiers-functionalist-plan-utopian-radiant-city/ https://99percentinvisible.org/article/ville-radieuse-le-cor.... The influences quickly spread through Europe and North America before exploding everywhere post WWII. There are several Wikipedia pages about Le Corbusiers, including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Radieuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Radieuse but in a simple search I couldn't find one that gives a good overview of how influential it actually was. A lot academic urban planning literature discusses it. OTOH, the idea of less crowding long predated Le Corbusiers, and his vision may have been inevitable, but it was Le Corbusiers who packaged it up into a comprehensive concept, which helped the practice to spread much more rapidly and uniformly around the world.
- thatcat 2y ago
  oh i see, those are quite lame. i guess i was imagining a fully contained skyscraper city surrounded by national park area with trees and mountains.
jordanb 2y ago
One of many examples https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftile.loc.gov%2Fstorage-services%2Fservice%2Fpnp%2Fvrg%2F01900%2F01969v.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=b1ba63bcec0685109ef1882d6cc93d626637631262abf7a4c087e7add47f489c&ipo=images https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Yes, in just about every large city across the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, especially in cities, and newer parts of older cities, that were developed since the 1950s. It still influences contemporary architecture and city layout, though today maybe it's less deliberate (i.e. artistic, conceptual) and more a consequence of car culture and not wanting to crowd tall skyscrapers. So you just turn all the empty space between skyscrapers into "park", which almost invariably becomes desolate green space. It's the status quo even though the original concept has become largely discredited (or at least lacking for advocates) among the urban planning crowd and, to a lesser extent, architects (the effect frames their buildings as monoliths, easier to be admired as signature pieces). It originates with Le Corbusier and his Radiant City concept from the 1930s. See https://99percentinvisible.org/article/ville-radieuse-le-corbusiers-functionalist-plan-utopian-radiant-city/ https://99percentinvisible.org/article/ville-radieuse-le-cor.... The influences quickly spread through Europe and North America before exploding everywhere post WWII. There are several Wikipedia pages about Le Corbusiers, including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Radieuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Radieuse but in a simple search I couldn't find one that gives a good overview of how influential it actually was. A lot academic urban planning literature discusses it. OTOH, the idea of less crowding long predated Le Corbusiers, and his vision may have been inevitable, but it was Le Corbusiers who packaged it up into a comprehensive concept, which helped the practice to spread much more rapidly and uniformly around the world.

thatcat 2y ago
oh i see, those are quite lame. i guess i was imagining a fully contained skyscraper city surrounded by national park area with trees and mountains.

jordanb 2y ago

One of many examples https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftile.loc.gov%2Fstorage-services%2Fservice%2Fpnp%2Fvrg%2F01900%2F01969v.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=b1ba63bcec0685109ef1882d6cc93d626637631262abf7a4c087e7add47f489c&ipo=images https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...