French garden Cities and georges benoit Levy

The French version of the garden-cities was developed by the French theorist Georges Benoit-Levy and the socialist deputee Henri Sellier. They built residential complexes that would assure the decongestion of Paris and of its outskirts, as well as have a maximum level of confort and hygiene. The progressist model, however, believes another one to be the right approach to Paris’ decongestion, this being the tall collective blocks of flats located in a vegetation mass. One example of such endeavor was Plessis-Robinson, which embodied the free and fluid space in a modernist skin. All these French endeavors can be regarded as a hybrid model between culturalism and progressism.