PLAN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Urban Sprawl, Le Corbusier
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Years following the war in many ways the peak of new yorks history. Not just one industry, many industries that made it greatest city at the time. Was a manufacturing city, everyone could work and make money, working mans city. Le corbusier wanted to stop cars on the street and create large apartments surrounded by green space with expressways to allow a flow of vehicles constantly. Shift to new york becoming the capital of the world after world war two. Symbolized by the united nations coming to new york. Un headquarters developed out of le corbusiers earlier work, slab of glass with no windows facing north and south, swooping roof of lower building, nothing like it existed previously. Following construction of the un building, became the office capital of the world. In buroughs other than manhattan, people from the south and flocked to new york for employment great black migration .
