Broadacre City

Frank Lloyd Wright

and his vision for the urban future

Road Machines [Motor Cars]

by Franz Sdoutz

'Broadacre City' THE LIVING CITY - 1958

References:

1. 'The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright' by Arthur Drexler, published by Bramhall House, New York 1962
   
   Img. _01 FLWF 5825.007 perspective view of 'The Living City' 1958
2. 'Frank Lloyd Wright 1943-1959: The Complete Works' by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, published by Taschen 2009
   
   Img. _02 5826.007 [page 534]
   1 [page 534]

Links

www.fba.fh-darmstadt.de
www.fabiofeminofantascience.org

more Broadacre

• 'Broadacre City' model; illustrations 002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 007 for 'The Living City'
• related housing schemes:
  Quadruple Block Plan; Willey House; Cloverleaf Quadruple Housing; Galesburg Country Homes; American System-Built Houses; Usonian Houses
• additional architecture:
  Huntington Hartford Play Resort; Gordon Strong Automobile Objective; Rogers Lacy Hotel

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 [!].
  
  
• ARCHITECTURETEORY.NET is currently being upgraded and restructured. This may result in shifted and frequently altered content.

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