Ville Radieuse

Ville Radieuse, meaning Radiant City, is an unrealized urban design project by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, presented in 1930. It followed his earlier Ville Contemporaine concept of the 1920s and, after Le Corbusier's engagement with international planners and the syndicalist movement, was conceived as a blueprint for social reform. Rather than his earlier radial city model, it proposed a linear city based on the abstract shape of the human body, with high-rise housing blocks, open circulation spaces and extensive green space; its principles later influenced projects including the Unite d'Habitation in Marseille and the design of Brasilia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/