Josep Lluís Sert: Footprint on Roosevelt Island
May 13, 2019
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Josep Lluís Sert: Footprint on Roosevelt Island
In 1947, Josep Lluís Sert produced a blueprint for reform alarmingly titled “Can Our Cities Survive?” This deeply democratic document contends that the only remedy for city dwellers’ unhappiness is a focus on neighborhoods and on four principles: dwellings, work, recreation, and transportation. To quote Sert, “Considered on its smallest scale, the neighborhood unit would be composed of the dwellings required to house a sufficient number of people to support an elementary school.” Roosevelt
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