ABSTRACT
This chapter address a third scale, the urban area, larger than few buildings but smaller than a whole town or city. The relationships between the isolation and binding of individual units into groups also dominated Wright's thinking in a later project, The Ardmore Experiment of 1938. Compensation for the contraction or near loss of back yards in the earlier block plans was provided by terraces on the Ardmore houses, including a roof terrace, which explains the name later given to the design: Sun-top Homes. A surprisingly similar double-story, L-shaped section formed the unit of grouping in the block of residences Le Corbusier built in Marseilles in 1952, the Unite d'habitation. A Monopoly-like game board developed by Le Corbusier shortly after The Radiant City, illustrates particularly well two of these scales – the resident's roof-scape and the community's landscape. The basic premise for architectural work at any scale is that the lack of exchange and involvement are always unhealthy.
