Snatching this post I made on a completely different forum, I wanted to post some of the great never built cities. A lot of these are late 1800's/early 1900's. Sources underneath each image.
The Woodward plan for Detroit. Looks like something you would see in renaissance Italy or France. I tried making this layout in google sketchup and was surprised to see that the squares pictured around only about 50 x 50 feet wide. Not very big buildings to be honest, though blocks could be combined to make some larger structures.
whitewallbuick
Next up, the Burnham plan for Chicago. Partially built, but would have been pretty epic if it had been fully built. Also included a pretty massive central civic structure.
Penn State Library
Penn State Library
The Completion of Washington by Leon Krier. I mean its a crazy giant lake for a national mall. Its like Amsterdam and Washington DC had a baby. Now all it needs are canals everywhere.
MOMA
Germania, a replacement for Berlin. Not so much the actual plan, which consisted of a giant dick-move by running people who didn't vote for Hitler out of their homes and building a giant city on top of the ruins. It did have some crazy grand looking architecture though. Kind of makes me think about how beautiful the Colosseum is, in spite of the whole "feeding people to lions" thing. Honestly though, it looks cool from a distance, but would have been horrible to live in due to a lack of human scale.
imageshack, originally posted here
The London Elephant Plan
thecarandtheel
A new plan for the Pruit Igoe site.
It totally abandoned the "tower in a park" concept and creates a much more attractive community. Designed by Samuel John Lima. Really awesome renderings.
I read that the architecture matches that of old St. Louis, anyone from St. Louis care to mention if that is true or not?
[url]http://samlimaarchitecture.blogspot.com/2012/06/pruitt-igoe-re-imagined-as-walkable.html
All images from SJL
World Center of Communication
Lately I have been obsessing over this plan, a crazy city-beautiful plan for a massiveimperial world capital!
Sorry the etching on the bottom image isn't legible. You can still clearly see the U shaped canal running through the city. There is actually another one closer to the stadium you can clearly see in the first image. The source for the first image includes a higher resolution.
Spezialsammlungen Digital
Cornell University
The Woodward plan for Detroit. Looks like something you would see in renaissance Italy or France. I tried making this layout in google sketchup and was surprised to see that the squares pictured around only about 50 x 50 feet wide. Not very big buildings to be honest, though blocks could be combined to make some larger structures.
whitewallbuick
Next up, the Burnham plan for Chicago. Partially built, but would have been pretty epic if it had been fully built. Also included a pretty massive central civic structure.
Penn State Library
Penn State Library
The Completion of Washington by Leon Krier. I mean its a crazy giant lake for a national mall. Its like Amsterdam and Washington DC had a baby. Now all it needs are canals everywhere.
MOMA
Germania, a replacement for Berlin. Not so much the actual plan, which consisted of a giant dick-move by running people who didn't vote for Hitler out of their homes and building a giant city on top of the ruins. It did have some crazy grand looking architecture though. Kind of makes me think about how beautiful the Colosseum is, in spite of the whole "feeding people to lions" thing. Honestly though, it looks cool from a distance, but would have been horrible to live in due to a lack of human scale.
imageshack, originally posted here
The London Elephant Plan
thecarandtheel
A new plan for the Pruit Igoe site.
It totally abandoned the "tower in a park" concept and creates a much more attractive community. Designed by Samuel John Lima. Really awesome renderings.
I read that the architecture matches that of old St. Louis, anyone from St. Louis care to mention if that is true or not?
[url]http://samlimaarchitecture.blogspot.com/2012/06/pruitt-igoe-re-imagined-as-walkable.html
All images from SJL
World Center of Communication
Lately I have been obsessing over this plan, a crazy city-beautiful plan for a massive
Sorry the etching on the bottom image isn't legible. You can still clearly see the U shaped canal running through the city. There is actually another one closer to the stadium you can clearly see in the first image. The source for the first image includes a higher resolution.
Spezialsammlungen Digital
Cornell University