Henri Lefebvre on Le Corbusier And Urbanism - Medialien zap

Especially Le Corbusier who thought he was being revolutionary but who in fact achieved the architectural project of monopoly state capitalism, as well as that of state socialism. Claiming to be revolutionary about 50 years ago, Le Corbusier led the architectural and urbanistic path that the modern economy would require. Between 1960 and 1970, urbanism was charged with unlimited hopes, a new science was going to be constituted, an immeditaly effective science, a science of social life, the failure is total, absolute, and the practical result is absurd, urbanism can be boiled down to a mix of ideological considerations, and mainly of bureaucratic decision taken through a questionnably clever compromise between the executive power and private interests... In urbanisme, when you do something wrong it last 100 years ...