More Radiant Cities

[David Morris]

Nice Link.

I'm trying to remember if Pynchon ever used the term "radiant city."
I know he used "radiant hour" in GR, and he had that crazy comic-hero
episode with the moving buildings.  But "Radiant City" is a real term
coined by Le Crorbusier for his ideal city plan, and very much in-sync
with the link Monte provided:

http://www.uky.edu/Classes/PS/776/Projects/Lecorbusier/lecorbusier.html

http://morrischia.com/david/portfolio/boozy/research/radiant_20city.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115965/english/info/future/le.htm

http://www.stoutbooks.com/cgi-bin/stoutbooks.cgi/14294



On Dec 4, 2007 11:24 AM, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
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> http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/12/retro-future-glorious-urbanism.html
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> "humans went about their lives—in motion, understand—beneath the gigantic looming of a nocturnal city full of towers, domes, and spidery catwalks, themselves edged by an eerie illumination proceeding not entirely from municipal sources." (AtD 182)