Here's a trailer for Future by Design, a film by director William Gazecki about the vision of Jacque Fresco. Jacque wants to build fantastic new cities from the ground up (or in the sea), complete with flying cars and maglev trains.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Future by Design Website - via The Bad Rant
See also: The Venus Project by Jacque Fresco, previously on Neatorama.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier
Guys like this should stick to harmless stuff like furniture or individual residencies or buildings. They're not visionary, they're utopian, with all the top-down, authoritarian nightmarish side-effects glossed over with pious, fatuous homage to "civilization".
Please refer to your link in Wikipedia to see it.
Le Corbusier's “Ville Contemporaine†looks like a nightmare to me. An unreal utopian dream that, wherever actually built history proves turns into a dystopia of ghettos, or of empty shells that no-one wants to live in.
Wiki or Google Brasilia, for one famous example of a planned city that looks quite beautiful but is really only populated by Brazil's civil servants because nobody else wants or needs to live there.
The outskirts of Paris itself are an example of government-planned, low-cost, low-rent high rise ghettos, now serving as breeding grounds for Islamist gangs.