ABSTRACT
When it comes to modern housing, the usual gospel is the myth of the dissolution of the dense urban fabric of the nineteenth-century city and the invention of new forms of green settlements and estates. In the background of this myth lurk the ubiquitous avantgardist models of anti-urban revolution: Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City (1898) which aimed to create a new town-country-entity to rival with the existing cities; Bruno Taut’s Auflösung der Stadt (Dissolution of the City) of 1920 which envisaged the establishment of new settlements in the countryside and the destruction of the old cities; Le Corbusier’s urban ideologies which culminated in the openly aggressive statement of 1925 “Il faut tuer la rue-corridor” (The corridor street must be killed), declaring war on traditional urban spaces; Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City (1935) which created the model for ubiquitous sprawl; and Hans Scharoun’s Stadtslandschaft (Town-Landscape) for Berlin (1946) which aimed to generate a natural living environment instead of cities.1
