Städtebau (City Planning)

Berlin and Leipzig: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt Stuttgart, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very good- to very good+ condition. Quarto. xi [i], 261 [3]pp. 1 folding plan. Original black cloth with yellow modern design and lettering on cover, yellow lettering on spine, in original dustjacket with similar design and red lettering on spine.

Nothing is more logical than this title on city planning by Corbusier to follow his book on forthcoming architecture, the fanfare on an indiscriminate fight for the new architecture. City planning is the core problem (truncated) of contemporary as well as the architecture of the future.

Profusely illustrated with 218 b/w photographs, architectural drawings and plans, graphics and charts, these great designs on city planning, presented logically and eloquently, may appear utopian but they are the reality of tomorrow. Folding plan with architectural drawing of a contemporary city at rear. Text in German. Dustjacket with light wear along top and bottom edges and lightly rubbed. Minor stain at foredge of front cover. (Inventory #: 54893)