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Ville Contemporaine, the Glossary

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The Ville contemporaine (Contemporary City) was an unrealized utopian planned community intended to house three million inhabitants designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1922.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 7 relations: EPCOT (concept), Le Corbusier, Planned community, Robert Hughes (critic), The Shock of the New, Utopia, Ville Radieuse.

  2. Architecture related to utopias
  3. Le Corbusier
  4. Proposed skyscrapers
  5. Unbuilt buildings and structures

EPCOT (concept)

The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, shortened to EPCOT or E.P.C.O.T., was an unfinished concept for a planned community, intended to sit on a swath of undeveloped land near Orlando, Florida.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

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A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land.

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Robert Hughes (critic)

Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 19386 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries.

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The Shock of the New

The Shock of the New is an eight-part documentary television series about the development of modern art written and presented in 1980 by Australian art critic Robert Hughes for the BBC, in association with Time-Life Films.

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Utopia

A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.

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Ville Radieuse

Ville radieuse was an unrealised urban design project designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1930. Ville Contemporaine and Ville Radieuse are le Corbusier.

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See also

Le Corbusier

Unbuilt buildings and structures

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Contemporaine

Also known as Contemporary City for Three Million Inhabitants, Towers in a park.