La Ciudad Radiante de Le Corbusier

"I prefer New York! It's hideous, but it's honest. It is the city of hard labor, but it doesn't try to hide the fact …"

"Everything here is paradox and disorder: individual liberty destroying collective liberty. Lack of discipline."

El Rascacielos Cartesiano de Le Corbusier: "subway; ground level and elevators; raised highways. Then, sixty floors of building. At the top, the armored platform against aerial bombardments." "The Cartesian skyscraper: steel and glass." El rascacielos cartesiano "'Recessed' apartment buildings in the Radiant City. Parks and schools in the middle. Elevator shafts spaced out at optimum distances (it is never necessary to walk more than 100 meters inside the buildings). Auto-ports at the foot of the shafts, linked to the roadways […]. The floor directly above the pilotis is given over to communal services. Under the pilotis, pedestrians walking unobstructed in all directions. In the park, one of the large swimming pools. Along the roofs, the continuous ribbon of roof gardens with beaches for sunbathing." La Ciudad Radiante desde la perspectiva de un peatón. "A battle of giants? No! The miracle of trees and parks reaffirms the human scale." "1922: The two theses face to face: New York is not a city of the machine-age civilization. New York is countered by the Cartesian city, harmonious and lyrical." "Conflicting spiritual attitudes: the French tradition - Notre-Dame and the Plan Voisin ('horizontal' skyscrapers) versus the American line (tumult, bristling chaos, first explosive state of new medievalism." El Plan Voisin en Paris: "From right to left, from east to west, you see the 'great East-West throughway of Paris' which embodies the future of Paris and offers the City Council the chance to launch a gigantic financial enterprise, a 'money-making' enterprise = a source of wealth. Since 1922 (for the past 42 years) I have continued to work, in general and in detail, on the problem of Paris. Everything has been made public. The City Council has never contacted me. It calls me 'Barbarian'!" Plan Volsin