ABSTRACT
This chapter comprises many sub-chapters, and tracks Jeanneret’s composition of his Manuscript in detail. It evaluates his own chapters that deal variously with urban blocks, streets, squares, enclosing walls, bridges, trees, gardens and parks, cemeteries, and garden cities. His intellectual sources are discussed in connection with his arguments.
Jeanneret composes a chapter on possible contemporary urban planning strategies for a medium-sized town. He praises the latest practices in Germany, as shown particularly at the Städtebauausstellung in Berlin, which he visited in June 1910. He develops an ambivalent stance on monumental versus picturesque design for urban situations – in particular for streets and squares. At the end of his Manuscript, Jeanneret sets out how the practices he has discussed could be applied to his home town, La Chaux-de-Fonds.
