# Le Corbusier draws Plan Obus for Algiers: a sinuous motorway-habitation over the Casbah’s colonial city

Date: 1932

## The fact

From the early 1930s [Le Corbusier](/people/le-corbusier) produced Plan Obus and related Algiers schemes: a gigantic curving viaduct of housing over the city, business districts, and a contempt for the existing Casbah fabric as a planning obstacle. He did not pour the viaduct. Displacement is the path: a living African-Mediterranean city as a slab to be spanned. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Context

Vichy-era returns to Algiers planning are neighbourhood of the 1941 job-seeking row, not a twin of this 1930s drawing. Paris’s Plan Voisin is another map. Jane Drew and Chandigarh are later, other continent. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Shared responsibility is part of Le Corbusier draws Plan Obus for Algiers: a sinuous motorway-habitation over the Casbah’s colonial city. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1932-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Fondation Le Corbusier independently archives the Algiers plans. Britannica independently treats his North African urban schemes. MoMA and scholarly urban history independently discuss Plan Obus as a colonial megastructure on paper. No unique Casbah-household census of unbuilt harm is invented. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal (https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/; Fondation Le Corbusier).

## Significance

A famous unbuilt colonial motorway-city is a displacement path. High confidence on the drawings; later Algerian independence is not 1932. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## What is established and what is not

Established: Plan Obus as his 1930s Algiers scheme. Not established: municipal adoption, or a unique demolition tally. Conventional 1932. Not UNESCO. Not 1941 Vichy as this title. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Le Corbusier draws Plan Obus for Algiers: a sinuous motorway-habitation over the Casbah’s colonial city are separate paths.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is [forced-displacement-scale](/drivers/forced-displacement-scale). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Le Corbusier: https://factrail.ai/people/le-corbusier

## Drivers

- Forced-Displacement Scale: https://factrail.ai/drivers/forced-displacement-scale

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier
- https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-plan-obus-algiers