Le Corbusier: When the Cathedrals Were White: A Journey to the Country of Timid People (1937–) [EN, ES]

“In his brilliant and incisive style, Le Corbusier examines the architecture and people of New York. He loves the people but finds the architecture haphazard and in need of planning. Through provocative prose and revealing drawings, he proposes a new, beautiful, vertical New York.” (from the back cover)

First published in French as Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches. Voyage au pays des timides, Plon, Paris, 1937.

English edition
Translated by Francis E. Hyslop, Jr.
First published by Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947
Publisher McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1964
243 pages

Review (Gaither Stewart, Southern Cross Review, 2003)

Google books (EN)

When the Cathedrals Were White (English, trans. Francis E. Hyslop, Jr., 1947/1964)
Cuando las catedrales eran blancas (Spanish, trans. Julio E. Payró, 2nd ed., 1948/1958)