Density
As the turn of the century approached, cities begin to show rapid congestion and overcrowding. This is a common fear of urban progression for it limits political and social growth. In an approach to relief, this density issue, Le Corbusier and Ludwig Hilberseimer, develop an urban approach to this problem by redefining current Town Planning. Both architects accommodated the idea of density as the conglomeration of audiences on specific environments.
Although density might be considered as crowding or obstruction, it can imposingly act as a structure to order and social improvement. In turn, this can all be achieved by proper planning and ideal implementation of technology. Le Corbusier’s rough approach to unify these entities can be acknowledged through the Aerodrome, located at the heart of the modern city as the main distributing hub for citizens. By implementing a center unit, he achieved to decongest and densify the surrounding areas with their respected programs, (governmental, educational, and residential). Hilberseimers approach was no different by structuring the residential and commercial on opposing landscapes and centralizing their efficiency by location. Although Hilberseimers idea is to decongest the city, he still reciprocates this by conglomerating particular social spaces. The integration of the bent apartment buildings are splendid use of structured program, while still maintaining density.
Both plans are simple and rely on pure human allocating nature, yet are achieved with great technological integration and advances. The fan shaped community and the elevated highway are brilliant accommodations in the landscape that relief the ordinary traffic. These advances further lead into more nature space. By conglomerating these groups can lead to splendid disbursement of parks and recreational space.