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Above: Le Corbusier's Dream realized.  This drawing is from his 1923 book "Towards a New Architecture".  The gritty reality is downtown Pyongyang, where half the apartments are vacant and the rest only marginally habitable amid chronic power shortages. 

                                                                    
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Bibliography:

All images copyright 2000 Dr. T. C. Kim

Le Corbusier. Towards a New Architecture
  Dover Publications.  New York.  1923, reprinted 1986

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