# Unité d’Habitation Marseille opens with shops, a hotel corridor, and a roof kindergarten as a vertical garden-city of housing access

Date: 1952

## The fact

The Marseille Unité opened in 1952 with double-height flats, an interior shopping street, and a roof terrace intended for gym and kindergarten — a machine for living that tried to pack sun and services into a reconstruction housing bar. He did not staff the clinic. Split: later cheap copies’ isolation is another row; béton energy is another. Archival locator: Ville de Marseille — official portal at https://www.marseille.fr/ (Ville de Marseille). Independent locator: Fondation [Le Corbusier](/people/le-corbusier) — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier).

## Context

Health-system capacity as driver is analogical: light, air, and a roof for children as a public-health housing idea of Reconstruction. Pessac was the earlier inhabited laboratory. Nantes-Rezé and Berlin Unités are later related buildings, not extra 1952 Facts. Archival locator: Ville de Marseille — official portal at https://www.marseille.fr/ (Ville de Marseille). Independent locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier).

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

## Evidence and sources

Marseille’s city portal independently presents the Unité. Fondation independently documents the programme of services. Britannica independently treats it as a housing prototype. No unique 1952 health-outcome series is invented. Archival locator: Ville de Marseille — official portal at https://www.marseille.fr/ (Ville de Marseille). Independent locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier).

Official or archival record: Ville de Marseille — official portal (https://www.marseille.fr/; Ville de Marseille).

## Significance

A Reconstruction housing bar with services is a health-access path. High confidence on 1952. Later copies’ failures do not erase the Marseille services; they are the other row. Archival locator: Ville de Marseille — official portal at https://www.marseille.fr/ (Ville de Marseille). Independent locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier).

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Unité d’Habitation Marseille opens with shops, a hotel corridor, and a roof kindergarten as a vertical garden-city of housing access are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 14 October 1952 opening as housing-plus-services. Not established: a unique infant-health coefficient. Split from ineq and energy rows. Not 2016 UNESCO. Archival locator: Ville de Marseille — official portal at https://www.marseille.fr/ (Ville de Marseille). Independent locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier).

Shared responsibility is part of Unité d’Habitation Marseille opens with shops, a hotel corridor, and a roof kindergarten as a vertical garden-city of housing access. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1952-10-14 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.

The attached driver is health-system-capacity. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

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

## People

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

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.marseille.fr/
- https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-unite-marseille-access