"In the Swiss-born architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known more widely as Le Corbusier, this viewpoint found its most articulate advocate. Le Corbusier looked with disdain on the contemporary city's hodge-podge of cottage, small apartments, and tenements. In its stead, he envisioned vistas of sixteen-story apartment blocks, amid massive towers set aside for commerce. His ideal - published in his La Ville radisuse - separated the functions of housing, commerce, recreation, and transport and provided ample green space for the enjoyment of city residents."
Exerpt from 'The City: A Global History' by Joel Kotkin 
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