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Broadacre City

Frank Lloyd Wright
and his vision for the urban future
Civic Centres
by Franz Sdoutz
Online since September 2008
Last changes: 10th of April 2010

'Broadacre City' The Living City - 1958, by Frank Lloyd Wright from 'Frank Lloyd Wright: Die Lebendige Stadt' - 1998, David G. De Long (Editor)
I.) Img. _01

FLWF 5825.003
Labelled in 'The Living City' [by Frank Lloyd Wright, published by Horizon Press, 1958, page 127]:

» TYPICAL STREET VIEW AT CIVIC CENTER WITH NEW TYPE VERTICAL BODY CAR AND HELICOPTER TAXI IN FLIGHT. STREET LIGHTS, SEEN AT INTERVALS LOW ON CURBS, ARE PLACED ALTERNATELY OPPOSITE TO EACH OTHER. IN DISTANCE, UNIVERSAL (NON-SECTARIAN) CATHEDRAL. TOWER AT RIGHT, COMBINATION APARTMENTS AND OFFICES «

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'Broadacre City' THE LIVING CITY - 1958, by Frank Lloyd Wright

Compare (from left to right):
Marin County Civic Center
Beth Sholom Synagoge
Price Tower

Geoposition:
+37° 59' 51.09'', -122° 31' 49.32''
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Housing the County administration and Hall of Justice the 'Marin County Civic Center' was completed by Aaron G. Green and William Wesley Peters based on Wright's preliminary drawings. III.) 1

» The civic center would always be an attractive automobile objective perhaps situated just off some major highway in interesting landscape noble and inspiring. « IV.) 2
'Marin County Civic Center' 1957 - 70 by Frank Lloyd Wright; Image from 'The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright' by Neil Levine - 1996
II.) Img. _02

Marin County Civic Center San Rafael, California, 1957 - 70

www.storrer.com
www.youtube.com 2 3
www.designmuseum.org 2
http://contentdm.unl.edu/1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
http://www.artdaily.org/ […]

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References:

  1. 'Frank Lloyd Wright: Die Lebendige Stadt' edited by David G. De Long, published by Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein / Skira editore, Milan, 1998
    http://books.google.at/ (German)

    Img. _01 FLWF 5825.003 perspective view of 'The Living City' 1958 [page 46], also published in 'The Living City' on page 127.
  2. 'The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright' by Neil Levine, published by Princeton University Press, 1996

    Img. _02 Marin County Civic Center San Rafael, California, 1957 - 70
  3. 'Frank Lloyd Wright 1943-1959: The Complete Works' by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, published by Taschen 2009

    1 [cf. page 506]
  4. 'The Living City' by Frank Lloyd Wright, published by Horizon Press, 1958 http://www.archive.org/

    2 [page 174]

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Links

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http://community.middlebury.edu

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File Log

  • 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.
  • All links to http://contentdm.unl.edu/ [University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries] have been updated (25.11.2008).
  • Links to http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/ [Columbia University in the City of New York] added (2.8.2009)
  • All dates according to source [!]. Wikipedia and 'The Complete Works' by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer accomplish [even here] a certain 'conventionalisation', superseding conflicting 'chronologies' supported by [prior] publications of the time.

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