Ville Radieuse

Ville Radieuse (, Radiant City) was an unrealised project designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1924.

Although Le Corbusier had exhibited his ideas for the ideal city, the Ville Contemporaine in the 1920s, during the early 1930s, after contact with international planners he began work on the Ville Radieuse. In 1930 he had become an active member of the syndicalist movement and proposed the Ville Radieuse as a blueprint of social reform.

The principles of the Ville Radieuse were incorporated into his later publication, the Athens Charter published in 1943.

His utopian ideal formed the basis of a number of urban plans during the 1930s and 1940s culminating in the design and construction of the first Unité d’Habitation in Marseilles in 1952.