This document provides information about key figures and events in the development of modern and contemporary urban planning through a series of linked sources: - It discusses the Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne (CIAM) and their promotion of functional zoning of cities into areas for housing, work, recreation, and transportation through the separation of functions. - The 4th CIAM conference in 1933 established the principles of the "Functional City" that strongly influenced modernist urban planning. - Other influences discussed include the "Neighborhood Unit" concept of Clarence Perry and housing projects like the Cité de la Muette designed by Beaudoin and Lods that applied CIAM principles. - Examples of

1. http://theprimaryline.com/blog/2014/01/24/modern-vs-contemporary-whats-the-difference/
C.I.A.M
Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne
Biya Hirpo

2. The Plan Zuid ("South Plan") is an urban development plan of Amsterdam South designed by
architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Jonathan Barnett, The elusive city, Harrper & Row publishers, New York, page 106

3. https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/the-amsterdam-school-a-new-model-for-living/
A bird’s eye view of the new Plan Zuid

4. https://archhistdaily.wordpress.com/tag/ciam/
4th CIAM

5. • Functional City
• Strict functional segregation
• Dwellings, Recreation, Workplaces and
Transportation
• Distribution of the population into tall
apartment blocks
• Free the ground for recreation
https://www.archdaily.com/596081/ciam-4-and-the-unanimous-origins-of-modernist-urban-planning
4th CIAM

6. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307746242_Urban_Form_and_Greenhouse_Gas_Emissions_Findings_Strategies_and_D
esign_Decision_Support_Technologies/figures?lo=1
The Clarence Perry 'Neighborhood Unit' diagram of 1929.
Clarence Perry

7. https://www.pinterest.jp/pin/557531628842668247/?lp=true
La Cite de La Muette at Drancy, near Paris, designed by
Beaudoin and Lods and built in the late 1930s

8. https://www.arcam.nl/en/de-wolkenkrabber/
Victorieplein apartment tower by J. F. Staal

9. City design implied by the Photomontages
showing projects for tall, glass curtain- wall
buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe during the 1920s.
https://ofarquitectos.tumblr.com/post/27480383183/fabriciomora-ludwig-
mies-van-der-rohe-project

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