"Modern cities are threatened with suffocation. Industries whose wealth is essential but who pollutants can be fatal, bumper-to-bumper transportation systems, crowding, manic disproportions and crazed urban structures - no wonder the cities are decaying and hardly habitable. The advent of rapid systems of transporting people and products has shattered the line between village and city, stripping the one of independence, stripping the other of coherence, so the city extends, grotesque, sprawling. Without a head-on attack on its problems, the city will die. And everyone knows it. The late Le Corbusier remains arguably the greatest architect and urban planner of the century. his cities are built to a human scale. He opened them up. He let in sunlight - which, in city planning, as in politics, is the best disinfectant. He made them make sense, as places to live and work. In 1946, when the first French edition of this work appeared, Le Corbusier applied his knowledge and vision to the problems of modern cities. Subsequently revised by him, Looking at City Planning now appears in English for the first time, with Le Corbusier's ideas on transforming our inhospitable streets, planning parks and parking, solving endemic housing problem.s His provocative ideas may be our salvation." -- from interior flap. Translated by Eleanor Levieux. Printed in black-and-white.