Toit-civique. Le Corbusier y el espacio publico a 50 m del suelo

The space created on top of Le Corbusier apartment buildings became, already in the 30s, a new territory for the urban planner. This territory was quite similar to the public space at the ground level of corbuserian cities of the epoch. This article therefore researches the possibility that the same basic concerns and the same projective mechanism were employed both to design the toit-terrasse of the unité d'habitation in the 1940s, and the public space, at the ground level, of the cities in which this housing model was applied.