Abstract
Abstract Historians of town planning routinely emphasize the importance of the Athens Charter, a document said to have emerged from the Fourth Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) held in 1933. Supposedly based on functional analyses of cities compiled by CIAM's national member groups, the Athens Charter was purported to be a consensual statement of how modern architects thought about the task of designing the future city. After discussing the origins of CIAM, this entry examines the history of documents that stemmed from CIAM IV and questions whether any of them represents an authentic statement of the organization's shared views about urbanism.
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