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214:. Responding to the squalid conditions of cities in the 1920s, Le Corbusier proposed razing the old cities and replacing them with new, clean, hyper-rationalist layouts employing the "tower in a park" morphology. The skyscrapers were intended to house the new city's three million residents on only 5% of the land. By placing the buildings near the center of the block, there is room for parking, lawns, trees, and other landscaping elements. Le Corbusier further employed the morphology in his 1930 plan for Paris, the
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were originally designed to house young "swinging single" middle class residents, but the apartments lacked appeal and the area quickly became much poorer.
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culture and crime. The layout was criticised for normalising anti-social behaviour and hampering the efforts of essential services, particularly for
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characterized by a high-rise building (a "slab") surrounded by a swath of landscaped land. Thus, the tower does not directly front the street.
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called its destruction "the day Modern architecture died" and considered it a direct indictment of the society-changing aspirations of the
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Interior of the Modernist Tower. Fabrications, 33(2), 359–377.
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708:"Your Broadwater Farm | Tottenham Regeneration"
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792:"The Race for the Sky: Unbuilt Skyscrapers"
526:(1966–1969) in Dublin, Ireland (demolished)
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826:OPERATION SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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291:Cooperative Village
261:St. Louis, Missouri
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661:The Rocks
405:, England
403:Sheffield
399:Park Hill
343:Marseille
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282:Examples
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