Le Corbusier’s ordered space drew on Jeffersonian land partition

Evidence

Corbusier was, in effect, merely following the Jeffersonian principles of land partition when he argued that the way to individual liberty and freedom lay through the construction of a highly ordered and rationalized space. His project was internationalist, and emphasized the kind of unity in which a socially conscious notion of individual difference could be fully explored. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1714

Categorization

• XREF: Connects the grid-planning lineage to Corbusier’s rationalism, and plausibly to Jameson’s account of modernism’s spatial order.