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'Broadacre City' THE LIVING CITY - 1958
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"The train was to be a series of cylinders for the passenger cars, air driven by propeller above the engine car […]" on "track or monorail" featuring elevated train stations. II.) 1
» Naturally enough the railroad rights-of-way as may be, belong to the people; and truck lanes occupy the vacant spaces each side along the rails. […] Various streams of continuous cross-country traffic, local and long distance bus travel and local trucking should be placed upon these popular railroad rights-of-way, thus restoring the highway to the safe use of the citizen in his automobile. « IV.) 2
» There may be many minor transient stations instead of a few major ones […] Railway cars would not run by noisy "trucks" but slide down shallow skids, the cars mounted upon them being light cylindrical tubes perhaps jet-powered. A railway train would become capable of 150 miles an hour without any uncomfortable vibration. « IV.) 3
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II.) Img. _02
5828.001 [detail; section through elevated train station]
Label: » Broadacre City (Right of Way) … «
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References:
- '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 5825.004 perspective view of 'The Living City' 1958 [page 44]
- 'Frank Lloyd Wright 1943-1959: The Complete Works' by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, published by Taschen 2009
Img. _02 Detail of drawing 5828.001 from page 535.
1 [cf. project description also on page 535]
- 'The Living City' by Frank Lloyd Wright, published by Horizon Press, 1958 http://www.archive.org/
2 [page 114] (According to http://en.wikipedia.org/ in the U.S. railroad rights-of-way are considered private property by the respective railroad owners … )
3 [page 134]
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Links
http://www.scalarchives.it/
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more Broadacre
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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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