"The traveller in his airplane, arriving from Constantinople or Pekin as it may be, suddenly sees appearing through the wavering lines of rivers and patches of forests that clear imprint which marks a city which has grown in accordance with the spirit of man: the mark of the human brain at work. * As twilight falls the glass sky-scrapers seem to flame. * This is no dangerous futurism, a sort of literary dynamite flung violently at the spectator. It is a spectacle organized by an Architecture which uses plastic resources for the modulation of forms seen in light. * A City made for speed is made for success."

~Le Corbusier, The City Tomorrow and Its Planning, 1929