LibGuides: ARCH 1598: Building Utopia: Getting Started

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[Detail] Le Corbusier, La Ville Verté 1000, 1933. Illustration. The Radiant City: Elements of a Doctrine of Urbanism to be Used as the Basis of our Machine-Age Civilization by Le Corbusier. New York: Orion Press, 1967, p. 163.

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