Toplab Architecture Preboard Practice Exam

Une Cite Industrielle was published in 1917 by Tony Garnier, a French architect and city planner. His concept imagines a city built around industrial activity with clear functional zoning: separate areas for housing, factories, and services, all linked by an organized transport network and generous green spaces. This approach reflects an early attempt to rethink urban form for industrial society, aiming to improve health, efficiency, and social welfare for workers.

Le Corbusier is associated with later modernist ideas like the Radiant City, which builds on but moves beyond Garnier’s early zoning concepts. Haussmann is the 19th-century figure known for the large-scale redesign of Paris, not this work. Auguste Perret contributed to early concrete architecture and building technology, but not this urban manifesto.