Ville Contemporaine

Proposed by Le Corbusier for the city of Paris

The Ville Contemporaine was an unrealised

project to house 3 million inhabitants

The new city of Le Corbusier would consist of giant

blocks of apartments and large landscaped spaces.
Sky Scrapers
Housing ‘Set Backs’
Housing ‘Cellular’
The basic principles of the city plan are:
1) decongestion of the city center,
2) increase of the density,
3) increase of the means of circulation,
4) increase of the planted surfaces.

Group of sixty-story cruciform skyscrapers built on steel frames and encased in

curtain walls of glass.