Unit 6: Le Corbusier DISCUSSION This essay is different from what we have read i

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Unit 6: Le Corbusier DISCUSSION
This essay is different from what we have read in class because it feels like a ‘project’–a manual for improving the city. [It’s also shorter than what we have read so far!] So I want you to include TWO things in your post:
1. As I said in the introduction to the unit, Le Corbusier never actually designed or built a city, but his ideas are everywhere in large cities today, especially in the U.S. Talk a bit about which elements from the essay are a regular feature of cities like Chicago or New York (you can, of course, think of other large cities!).
2. But I also want you to think a bit about the implications–the consequences–of designing a city the way Le Corubiser is advocating for. Perhaps you can start with the last line of the essay: “A city made for speed is made for success”–what are the advantages and disadvantages of thinking this way about a city? What might be the effects of a ‘Corbusian’ city on communities, on neighborhoods, on pedestrians (just to give a few examples)?
As usual, ONE original post, and then TWO replies.
Unit 6: What We’re Doing–Wonders and Tribulations of the High Modernist City: Dismantling Utopias
I think it’s time to read an architect!
We have been studying anthropologists, urbanists, sociologists, geographers, and the like, but in this unit, we are moving on to read how an architect THINKS and PLANS the city. Le Corbusier was a major theoretician of architecture in the 20th century, and even though he never actually designed a city, many of his ideas were adopted and adapted all around the world in large urban centers.
The structure of cities today owes a great deal to high modernism, a style of architecture developed after World War II that prized efficiency and uniformity. Le Corbusier was an influential voice in that development.
But efficiency sometimes came at the expense of other issues in the city. So in this unit, we are going to read the ideal notions of an efficient city, and then watch a COMEDY that lightly satirizes the effects, and the consequences of that efficiency: the French film Playtime plays with what happens to the humans who live in that high modernist city.
Here is a trailer of the film:

Here is the full film:
https://archive.org/details/jacques.-tati.-playtime.-1967

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