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"The age of personal statues is gone. No personal statues shall be erected in the city or parks of Chandigarh. The city is planned to breathe the new sublimated spirit of art. Commemoration of persons …"

"A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe."

"The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can l…"

"The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of indi…"

"It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution."

"Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate."

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."

"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cyli…"

"My own duty and my aim is to try and raise people out of their misery, away from catastrophe; to provide them with happiness, with a contented existence, with harmony. My own goal is to establish or r…"

"Le Corbusier's architecture and city planning at Chandigarh"

"The Despot is not a man. It is the Plan. The correct, realistic, exact plan."

"Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city."

"The "styles" are a lie."