# Le Corbusier’s Saint-Dié reconstruction plan proposes a Radiant tabula rasa for a bombed Vosges town; locals refuse the full scheme

Date: 1945

## The fact

After Saint-Dié was burned in 1944, [Le Corbusier](/people/le-corbusier) produced a reconstruction plan of zoned towers and a civic core, a Radiant application to a Vosges town. Inhabitants and local politics refused the full erasure. He did not drive the German arson. Displacement is the path of the proposed rasura, even though it was largely not built. 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

This is Liberation-era, not Vichy; the method is still Ville radieuse. Marseille Unité is the housing prototype he did build. Firminy later takes a piece of the Radiant programme. Cohesion of a refused plan is mixed and not cloned as improving. 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).

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Unité at Firminy is a later, separate building-row. Mixed effects of Le Corbusier’s Saint-Dié reconstruction plan proposes a Radiant tabula rasa for a bombed Vosges town; locals refuse the full scheme are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Fondation Le Corbusier independently lists Saint-Dié among reconstruction studies. Britannica independently treats his postwar urban plans. Local and scholarly reconstruction histories independently narrate the refusal. No unique unbuilt-flat census 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 refused tabula rasa is still a displacement path as a completed drawing. High confidence on the plan; the town’s surviving streets are the limit. Later heritage of what was built instead is not 1945. 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).

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.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1945 Saint-Dié plan as his; full scheme refused. Not established: a unique household-loss table of a demolition that did not fully run. Conventional 1945. Not Vichy 1941. 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’s Saint-Dié reconstruction plan proposes a Radiant tabula rasa for a bombed Vosges town; locals refuse the full scheme. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1945-01-01 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.

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

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

## 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-saint-die-plan