It probably isn’t the first time that le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin has elicited some visual association with Singapore’s Housing Development Board (HDB) New Towns; what with towering residential masses floating above acres of public and green space. Of course, the HDB-way proved an effective remedy to the cramped, disorderly conditions of Singapore; and provided the governing powers with some way of policing the population.
Interestingly, ArchDaily.com’s Marco Castroni provides some comparative analysis between slums and the wave of post-WWII urban renewal that includes Haussmann’s Paris, le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin, and the borgata of Rome in the first of a two part analysis entitled Learning from the slums
via ArchDaily.com
