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Broadacre City

Frank Lloyd Wright
and his vision for the urban future
Skyscrapers and Highways
by Franz Sdoutz
Online since September 2007
Last changes: 7th of May 2010

'Broadacre City' The Living City - 1958, by Frank Lloyd Wright from 'The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright' by Arthur Drexler 1962
I.) Img. _01

FLWF 5825.005

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

Wright 'furnishes' his city with past and anticipated future projects. In this illustration we are probably just hovering above Price Tower / St. Mark's Towers in the Bouwerie (roof in the bottom right corner) looking at the outlines of the Mile-High Tower (The Mile High 'Illinois') in the distance.

'Broadacre City model. Freeway interchange. From Architectural Record, (1935)' by Frank Lloyd Wright, from 'Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier' by Robert Fishman, published by Basic Books, New York in 1977
II.) Img. _02

Freeway interchange [main arterial]
Likely one of Broadacre's ancillary models 1934 - 35

Section: [minor highway]
http://contentdm.unl.edu/

Plan: [major highway]
http://contentdm.unl.edu/

http://www.wright50years.com/ […]


'Broadacre City' Motorway intersection 1934 - 35

Also featured in the foreground of illustration 005 and in perspective 002

Imagine a left turn in one of Broadacre's Road Machines …


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References:

  1. 'The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright' by Arthur Drexler, published by Bramhall House, New York 1962

    Img. _01 FLWF 5825.005 perspective view of 'The Living City' 1958
  2. 'Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier' by Robert Fishman, published by Basic Books, New York in 1977 http://books.google.at/

    Img. _02 Labelled: » Broadacre City model. Freeway interchange. From Architectural Record, (1935). « [between pages 114 to 115]

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Links

Harold C. Price Company Office Tower (office and apartment tower) 1952-1956, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
en.wikipedia.org
www.delmars.com
media.washingtonpost.com
recerca.upc.edu
www.exploringart.net
www.michael.leland.name
www.bartlesvillehistory.com
www.flickr.com
www.arch.mcgill.ca section
books.google.de/ 2
http://contentdm.unl.edu/ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
http://architettura.supereva.com/ […]
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/ 2

St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie (Apartment) Towers 1927-1931, New York City
moma.org
www.flickr.com
www.aiany.org
architettura.supereva.com […]
www.rouge.com.au FLWF 2905.006
http://contentdm.unl.edu/ 1
http://epiteszforum.hu/ […]
http://www.skyscraper.org/
http://books.google.at/
http://www.scalarchives.it/
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/ 2 3 4 5

Crystal City (Crystal Heights) 1940, project for Washington D.C. (hotel, appartment towers, shops, cinema)
books.google.com
http://contentdm.unl.edu/ 1 2 3 4 5 6
http://architettura.supereva.com/ […]
http://structurehub.com/

Grouped Towers (apartments) 1930, Chicago, IIllinois
http://architettura.supereva.com/ […]

The Mile High 'Illinois' - 1956
en.wikipedia.org
archrecord.construction.com
www.delmars.com
www.fabiofeminofantascience.org high resolution in parts elevations
www.goodart.org
www.arch.mcgill.ca
www.prairiemod.typepad.com
books.google.de/ 2
news.webshots.com
http://contentdm.unl.edu/ 1 2 3
http://www.scalarchives.it/
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/
http://www.youtube.com/


'The golden Beacon' Apartment Tower for Charles F. Glore - Chicago - 1956
news.webshots.com
www.fba.fh-darmstadt.de
http://contentdm.unl.edu/ 1 2
http://www.scalarchives.it/
http://einestages.spiegel.de/

Broadacre City County [Office] Building
http://contentdm.unl.edu/ 1

National Life Insurance Co. Chicago 1924, 1925
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/

Point View Residences - Apartments for the Edgar J. Kaufmann Charitable Trust 1953
http://einestages.spiegel.de/

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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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