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
