Radiant City / La Ville Radieuse
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CORE DEFINITION
A utopian vision of modernist architecture. It advocates demolishing crowded old cities and building cities that function like efficient machines, composed of skyscrapers, highways, and vast green spaces. Although the vision is grand, it often neglects the humanization of street life.
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The extreme and pitfall of rational planning. It represents the impulse to reconstruct chaotic reality with pure reason. When designing systems (such as middle platforms or architectures), be wary of the temptation of this 'Radiant City'—it may look uniform and logically perfect, but it can stifle the organic chaos and vitality needed for life (or business).
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Le Corbusier's modernist urban planning: high-rise buildings, green spaces, highways, and functional zoning for a 'machine-like efficient' city. Its failure lies in erasing street life and organic chaos, proving that purely rational planning can stifle human vitality.
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