Cité Radieuse: An address from Le Corbusier to M. Claudius Petit, Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning, on the occasion of the handing over of the Unité d'Habitation ait Marseilles on 14th Oct. 1952 : "Monsieur le Ministre, It is my pride, my honour and my joy to hand over to you the “Unité d'Habitation”, the first manifestation of an environment suited to modern life.