The technical equipment of this epoch—the technique of finance and the technique of construction—is ready to carry out this task.
Tony Garnier, backed by Herriot at Lyons, planned his
 | An image should appear at this position in the text. To use the entire page scan as a placeholder, edit this page and replace "{{missing image}}" with "{{raw image|Towards a New Architecture (Le Corbusier).djvu/79}}". Otherwise, if you are able to provide the image then please do so. For guidance, see Wikisource:Image guidelines and Help:Adding images. |  |
TONY GARNIER. A HOUSING SCHEME TAKEN FROM THE "CITÉ INDUSTRIELLE"
In his important studies on the Manufacturing Town, Tony Garnier has taken for granted certain possibilities of social development, not yet brought to pass, which would permit of methods of normal expansion of towns. The public would hare complete control of all building sites. A house for each family: only one half of the area would be occupied by buildings, the other half being for public use and planted with trees: hedges and fences would not be allowed. In this way the town could be traversed in every direction, quite independently of the streets, which there would be no need for a pedestrian to use. The town would really be like a great park.
"industrial quarter" (Cité). It is an attempt at an ordered scheme and a fusion of utilitarian and plastic solutions. One fixed rule governing the units employed gives, in every quarter of the town, the same choice of essential masses and determines the intervening spaces in accordance with practical necessities and the biddings of a poetical sense peculiar to the
