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LE CORBUSIER, 1923. A CITY OF TOWERS
The towers are placed amidst gardens and playing fields. The main arteries, with their motor-tracks built over them, allow of easy, or rapid, or very rapid circulation of traffic.
should repudiate the existing lay-out of our towns, in which the congestion of buildings grows greater, interlaced by narrow streets full of noise, petrol fumes and dust; and where on each storey the windows open wide on to this foul confusion. The great towns have become too dense for the security of their inhabitants and yet they are not sufficiently dense to meet the new needs of "modern business."
If we take as our basis the vital constructional event which the American sky-scraper has proved to be, it will be sufficient to bring together at certain points (relatively distant) the great density of our modern populations and to build at these points enormous constructions of 60 storeys high. Reinforced con-
