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To build his highways, Moses threw out of their homes 250,000 persons—more people than lived in Albany or Chattanooga, or in Spokane, Tacoma, Duluth, Akron, Baton Rouge, Mobile, Nashville or Sacramento.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
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("Mail Carrier Cheval")
[1]
was a French
mail carrier
who spent 33 years building
Le Palais idéal
(the "Ideal Palace") in
Hauterives
, in southeastern France.
[2]
[3]
It is regarded as an extraordinary example of
naïve art
architecture.
Ferdinand Cheval
The utopian city he envisioned would have two levels: an upper level designed for beauty and pedestrian life, and a level hidden below for canals, commerce, sanitation, and sewage.
Walter Isaacson • Leonardo da Vinci
To clear the land for these improvements, he evicted the city’s people, not thousands of them or tens of thousands but hundreds of thousands, from their homes and tore the homes down. Neighborhoods were obliterated by his edict to make room for new neighborhoods reared at his command.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Le Corbusier’s early buildings in Paris, the Maison La Roche and the Maison Jeanneret and the Pavillon Suisse, as well as the Villa Savoye in suburban Poissy,