| Instructor: Dr. Jeff Webb |
The City of Tomorrow
Read the following texts:
Le Corbusier. "The Pack Donkey's Way and Man's Way." The
City of Tomorrow and Its Planning. New York: Dover, 1987.
5-13. Originally published in 1929.
Le Corbusier. "A Contemporary City." The City of Tomorrow
and Its Planning. New York: Dover, 1987. 163-179.
Wayne Booth, The Craft of Research, "Qualifications"
132-148.
Preparation:
Le Corbusier's text is quite varied, including many photographs
of existing cities and sketches of ideal cities (with captions).
Think about these visual texts: What sorts of impressions
of the city do they convey?
Writing Assignment: Pick an aspect of Corbusier's
text that you think bears comparison with another text we've
read in the class, and develop the comparison in several paragraphs.
Please email me your paragraphs the morning of class.
Further Reading (please contact
me if you find materials that should be added to this
list):
- FEED City Issue, "Street
Level," 6.12.00. An interesting assessment of Le Corbusier's
vision of the the city of tomorrow.
- A biography
of Le Corbusier.
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