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Broadacre City

Frank Lloyd Wright
and his vision for the urban future
'The Living City'
Right of Way
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'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 II.) Img. _01

FLWF 5825.004

http://www.archive.org/



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


» 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



'Right of Way' - 1958 by Frank Lloyd Wright; Image from 'Frank Lloyd Wright 1943-1959: The Complete Works' by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer - 2009
II.) Img. _02

5828.001 [detail; section through elevated train station]
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  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 5825.004 perspective view of 'The Living City' 1958 [page 44]
  2. 'Frank Lloyd Wright 1943-1959: The Complete Works' [Volume 3] by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, edited by Peter Gössel, published by Taschen 2009
    http://www.taschen.com/

    Img. _01 5825.004 'The Living City, Illustrations' 1958 [page 529]
    Img. _02 Detail of drawing 5828.001 from page 535.
    1 [cf. project description also on page 535]
  3. '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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  • Very preliminary version ...
  • Outlining Broadacre City became necessary in the course of my urban diploma project 16/3 in 1999. Published 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 a certain 'conventionalisation', superseding conflicting 'chronologies' supported by [prior] publications of the time.
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