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For as long as architects have been architects, designing buildings has been their primary purpose, and as long as there have been buildings, there have been towns. One would naturally think that there would be consideration of the town when designing the buildings. This, however, is not always the case. In An Introduction to Urban Design, Jonathan Barnett states, “If you believe cities can be designed, nothing is more frustrating than to watch the continuous misapplication of the huge sums of money that are spent in rebuilding our cities and developing the countryside.” One man who was very keen on the impact a building has on its surroundings and vice versa was Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier had such a great love of architecture, and he realized that it does not stop at the concrete slab or at the top of the tower: “Happy towns are those that have an architecture. Architecture can be found in the telephone and in the Parthenon. How easily could it be at home in our houses! Houses make the street and the street makes the town and the town is