04. Ludwig Hilberseimer. Schema einer Hochhausstadt, Ost-Weststrasse. Photograph for Grossstadt Architektur. Stuttgart: Verlag Julius, 1927
Ludwig Hilberseimer, an urban planner and instructor at the Bauhaus in Dessau (and later at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago) conceived of the Hochhausstadt (highrise city) as an exceedingly ordered city plan. The plan calls for multiple levels of transportation—one for auto traffic, another for pedestrian traffic—with identical high rise structures organized in uniform blocks along the grid created by routes of transportation. The starkness of the plan and dehumanization of the environment later caused Hilberseimer to remark that it was intended solely to solve the problem of traffic planning.

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