All throughout the mid-20th century, utopian urban planning ideas sprouted in ... that strive for social living reforms such as in Le Corbusier’s experimental works or Lacaton & Vassal’s ...

The mid-20th century's top-down approach to urban planning, while producing bold theories, often failed to consider the human scale of city life. Le Corbusier's Ville Radieuse, for instance ...

In 1925 Le Corbusier, the Swiss-French architect and ... writer Robert Kunzig spent time with Jan Gehl, a Copenhagen urban designer who, Kunzig says, is “revered for his simple insights.” ...