The Concentric City was a proposed city plan from 1922 for 3 million people designed by Le Corbusier based on four principles: decongesting city centers, increasing density, improving circulation, and adding parks. The plan included a central city surrounded by a green belt and factories/satellite towns. At the center was a six-level transport hub surrounded by 24 tall office skyscrapers and lower density apartment districts with open spaces, all raised on stilts to allow greenery below. The goal was to combine efficient urban and natural environments.
The Concentric City was a proposed city plan from 1922 for 3 million people designed by Le Corbusier based on four principles: decongesting city centers, increasing density, improving circulation, and adding parks. The plan included a central city surrounded by a green belt and factories/satellite towns. At the center was a six-level transport hub surrounded by 24 tall office skyscrapers and lower density apartment districts with open spaces, all raised on stilts to allow greenery below. The goal was to combine efficient urban and natural environments.
The Concentric City was a proposed city plan from 1922 for 3 million people designed by Le Corbusier based on four principles: decongesting city centers, increasing density, improving circulation, and adding parks. The plan included a central city surrounded by a green belt and factories/satellite towns. At the center was a six-level transport hub surrounded by 24 tall office skyscrapers and lower density apartment districts with open spaces, all raised on stilts to allow greenery below. The goal was to combine efficient urban and natural environments.
The Concentric City was a proposed city plan from 1922 for 3 million people designed by Le Corbusier based on four principles: decongesting city centers, increasing density, improving circulation, and adding parks. The plan included a central city surrounded by a green belt and factories/satellite towns. At the center was a six-level transport hub surrounded by 24 tall office skyscrapers and lower density apartment districts with open spaces, all raised on stilts to allow greenery below. The goal was to combine efficient urban and natural environments.
by Le Corbusier in 1922, which was based on four principles.
• Decongestion of the centre of the
cities • Augmentation of the density • Enlargement of the means of circulation • Increase in the number of parks and open spaces
Three Zones in Concentric City
• Central city • Protected green belt • Factories and satellite towns CONCENTRIC CITY
• It consists of rectangle containing two cross axial
highways. At its heart was a six-level transport interchange – centre for motor, rail lines (underground and main line railways) and roof of which is air-field. • 24 cruciform skyscrapers - 60 storied office building with density 1200 ppa and covers 5% of the ground. • Surrounding skyscrapers was apartment district – 8 storey buildings arranged in zigzag rows with broad open spaces with density of 120 ppa (people per acre). • The buildings in the central area were raised on stilts (pilotis) so as to leave panoramas of unbroken greenery at ground level. • The city espoused space, speed, mass production and efficient organization, but also offered combination of natural and urban environments.