Green city? Rudolf Nikerle
Bubeneč district in Prague is a compact city composed of traditional blocks and streets - a model often criticized by modernists and CIAM. The photographs depict the classical city in the same way as modernists presented their green cities - as individual fragments placed in the green wilderness.
This collection shows not only that Prague’s Bubeneč is nowadays a more successful example of a green city than many other modernist realizations, but also how difficult it is to understand the city without understanding public space, that binds all its fragments together.
Fig. 1 Sketch of Le Corbusier’s Ville Contemporaine (1922) 1