WI: Voisin Plan implemented

In the 1925, French architect Le Corbusier proposed a new plan, known as Plan Voisin, to completely redo Paris, backed by car manufacturer Avions Voisin. The entire area between the Seine and Montmartre would be demolished. Then, 18 60-story skyscrapers would be built, and massive arterial super-highways would be paved over the area.

I know this is near-ASB, but suppose the plan had been implemented. What would it take for the plan to be put into action, and what are some ways history would be affected from then until the present?
 
Those designs were ugly as sin I recall from seeing them a few years back. ASB even now Paris keeps the skyscrapers out of downtown, and this would be like plonking down a council estate forty years early.
 
Well, Paris would no longer be a movable feast (Hemingway) but a dehumanized stagnancy.

Corbusier created some interesting visions. They just didn't take actual human beings into account.

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On the other hand, while Corbusier was defeated by Paris's planning authorities, he and his disciples had more fortune elsewhere: Chandigarh in India, which has aged every bit as well as you might expect; Lucio Costa's Brasilia; and Robert Moses' remaking of much of New York in the mid-20th century. Such schemes usually succeeded best when they were fashioned out of nothing (like Brasilia), as opposed to requiring the razing of vast swaths of existing urban block. Especially well-beloved existing urban block.

Recommended reading; Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961). Jacobs could see Cabrini Green coming long before it was even finished.
 
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