Barthelme, Le Corbusier and Paris

What Le Corbusier wanted to do to Paris

Barthelme, whose father was a modernist architect, spoke of Le Corbusier's "not insignificant totalitarian bent".... Le Corbusier had a hostility to the messy urban street so violent that, the architect Michael Sorkin suggests, it "can only be explained by psychoanalysis."

  --Ned Beauman in article on Jane Jacobs in the U.K. Guardian