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A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.

— Le Corbusier Attributed When the Cathedrals Were White (1947)

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It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture (1923)

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture (1923)

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.

Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture (1923)

Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

The Despot is not a man. It is the Plan. The correct, realistic, exact plan.

La Ville Radieuse [The Radiant City (1933)

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