Introduction

The Contemporary City proposal certainly caught the attention of the public. The use of technical analysis and architectural synthesis enabled the author to draw up his scheme for a contemporary city of three million inhabitants. There are some fundamental principles for modern town planning. A level site is the ideal site. In all those places where traffic becomes over-intensified the level site gives a chance of a normal solution to the problem. The more dense the population of a city is the less are the distances that have to be covered. The city's residential quarters must no longer be built along corridor-streets, full of noise and dust and deprived of light. The only place for the station is in the centre of the city, which is the natural place. The sky-scrapers are designed purely for business purposes. The forming of a protected zone by continual purchase of small properties in the immediate vicinity of the city is more important.