Sentence examples for radiant city from inspiring English sources

Entitled the Radiant City, the concept was presented by Le Corbusier in 1931.

The Radiant City has been scaled down to two towers facing each other across a traditional city street.

| March 16 at 6 and March 17 at 2: "Radiant City" (2006, Gary Burns and Jim Brown).

MONTGOMERY CENTER FOR THE ARTS "Writers: Great Ideas," lecture by Lauren B. Davis, author of "The Radiant City".

Graze it with your finger, and you find yourself amid a field of wheat, staring at the radiant city in the distance, much as Dorothy gazed at Oz.

The Radiant City was a piece of graphic design or sculpture, an aesthetic exercise with little basis in the practical realities of urban life.

But is it really the case that these radiant cities don't work?

Post-war, the new towns, Chamberlain Gardens in Birmingham or the Alton estate in London were attempts at Corbusian "Radiant Cities".

Nobody scorned the rusinurbe quite so much as the American writer Jane Jacobs, who considered the "Radiant Garden City Beautiful" amalgam as a moronic space where "Christopher Robin goes hippety-hoppety" – an image of the ideal city that had little to do with the messier spaces in which the city was lived.

In the 1960s, Jacobs created the conditions for institutional change by offering a thorough critique of the "Radiant Garden City Beautiful" orthodoxy of urban planning and presenting a solution for the problems that she saw with this approach.

St. Petersburg spends a good part of the year in cold and darkness, so when the short summer comes with its radiant White Nights, the city lets loose.