Le Corbusier publishes La Ville radieuse, the high-rise park-city doctrine of towers, zoning, and the death of the street

In 1933 Le Corbusier issued La Ville radieuse, assembling the Radiant City: sun, space, greenery, strict zoning, and the street as a condemned corridor. He did not pour every later slab. Cohesion here is the proposed death of mixed street life. Housing access as a possible improving twin is stored on Unité, not cloned here. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Context

CIAM’s Athens Charter the same year is a neighbouring congress-row. Plan Voisin is the 1925 Paris drawing. Algiers and Saint-Dié plans apply it to other maps.

Shared responsibility is part of Le Corbusier publishes La Ville radieuse, the high-rise park-city doctrine of towers, zoning, and the death of the street. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1933-01-01 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.

Why it matters

A portable anti-street doctrine is a cohesion path with a long administrative afterlife. High confidence on the book; later failures of towers-in-park are reception plus other authors.