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Frank Lloyd Wright |
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and his vision for the urban future
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Community plans (USONIA)
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Galesburg, east of Kalamazoo, Michigan Geoposition:
+42° 15' 39.86", -85° 24' 43.46"
http://maps.live.com/
Each home is placed in a circular one acre lot. Similar cooperative community schemes, sporting circular layouts, are: |
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Parkwyn (Parkwyn Village), Kalamazoo, Michigan 1947
Geoposition:
+42° 15' 49.60", -85° 37' 57.14"
http://maps.live.com/
Video:
"The Brown House" www.veoh.com
"The Creation of Parkwyn Village […]" by Rae and Robert Levin video.google.com
Pleasantville (Usonia Homes, Inc.), New York 1947 Geoposition:
+41° 7' 30.18", -73° 44' 44.87"
http://maps.live.com/
http://www.archive.org/ 2
Usonia II
PDF
http://www.thestudiony-alternative.org/
Images
http://www.flickr.com/
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'Galesburg Country Homes' Site Plan 1947, Frank Lloyd Wright (redrawing of FLWF 4828.001)
Abb.:
John Sergeant, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S USONIAN HOUSES - 1984 Paperback Edition, Page 79 (First published 1976 in New York, by Whitney Library of Design)
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Description:
"The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog" by William Allin Storrer, Frank Lloyd Wright, University of Chicago Press, 2002
Galesburg (page 295)
Parkwyn
Village (page 302)
Pleasantville (page 320)
Images and plans:
http://contentdm.unl.edu/
(database images)
http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ […] (Pratt house […])
http://architecture.about.com/
http://www.delmars.com/ Galesburg Parkwyn Village
http://www.wright50years.com/
i-Paper:
http://www.scribd.com/
Compare:
www.onearchitecture.nl
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- Outlining Broadacre City became necessary in the course of my urban diploma project 16/3 in 1999. Put online the same year in German, this 'preliminary' English translation became available in 2007.
- Context / related schemes (2007/2008)
- All links to http://contentdm.unl.edu/ [University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries] have been updated (25.11.2008)
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http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/ [Columbia University in the City of New York] added (2.8.2009)
- Last changes: 16th of May 2010
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