not enough of an architecture buff to have a good answer for this--but the drawbacks to pedestrians weren't so much in the *building* designs of Corbu and Wright, but in how they thought buildings should be laid out relative to one another (read: as spaced out as possible)
Corbu wanted to maximize space by piling everyone into monstrous tower blocks, connected by highways running through parkland...Wright wanted to maximize space by giving everyone a free-standing house on an acre of land, connected by more conventional roads along property lines
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both are completely antithetical to city life and flaneuring
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I give Wright credit for at least being in tune with what people actually want--some people, at least
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