Broadacre City Concept

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Broad acre City ConFrank Lloyd wright


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Broadacre Citywas an urban or suburban dconcept proposed by Frank Lloyd Wrightthrmost of his lifetime. He presented the idea inbook The Disappearing Cityin 1932. A few y

unveiled a very detailed twelve by twelve fom) scale model representing a hypothetical mile (10 km) community.

Wright's ideal community was a complete reAmerican cities of the first half of the 20th ceAccording to him, cities would no longer be

no longer beholden to the pedestrian or the business district. Broadacre City was a thougexperiment as much as it was a serious propwhere the automobile would reign supremetruly prophetic vision of modern America.
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The Plan

Broadacre City was the antithesis of a city anthe apotheosisof the newly born suburbia, sthrough Wright's particular vision. It was bostatement and a socio-political scheme by weach U.S.family would be given a one acre(4

plot of land from the federal lands reserves, Wright-conceived community would be builthis. In a sense it was the exact opposite of troriented development.

There is a train station and a few office and abuildings in Broadacre City, but the apartmeare expected to be a small minority. All impotransport is done by automobileand the pedexist safely only within the confines of the on(4,000 m) plots where most of the populati
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Broadacre Citywas largely a romanticized fantasy, dreamt up by a self-serving narcisout over a number of different articles and talks as well as three books, The DisappeariCity(1932), When Democracy Builds(1945), and The Living City(1958), Wright's utopiaultimately an extension of the things that made him personally comfortable: open spacautomobile, and not surprisingly, the architect as master controller.

Wright and his crew took the model to New York Citythat loathsome metropolis thatrepresented everything Wright thought was wrong with America. The model was displRockefeller Center and was seen by roughly 40,000 visitors, according to an estimate bYork Times. From there it would then go on tour in different American cities, spreadingBroadacre gospel.


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Among some of the features of the Broadacre City, too numerous to list in full infarms,music gardens, flight service, vineyards and orchards, schools, cinemas, gageneral merchandising and markets, little factories and so forth.

Also listed in the Broadacre City's official description are general guidelines or r

the more relevant are: No private ownership of public needs, no landlord or tenaproblems, an acre of ground minimum for the individual, Broadacre City makes existing system of land surveys, has a single seat of government for each county,architectural features determined by the character and topography of region.


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At Broadacrescenter were one-acre land units meant for nuclear families. Expathis center, Wright designated distinct areas that included: little farm units; lux(non-farm) housing; orchards; hotel; sanitarium; music garden; zoo; aquarium;factories; scientific and agricultural research; and a small school for small child

panel of the Rockefeller Model were a series of Orwellian negations that includ

No Slum. No ScumNo traffic problemsNo glaring cement roads or walks

Broadacreisn't a city; it is a landscape. Decentralised in organisation it is selfsupply, republican in constitution, and populated by auto - mobile citizens. , thehouse.

There is no administration - no bureaucracy - but the architect, who plans the settles its affairs. He arranges who may own how many acres of land and whereand lead to, thus preventing property speculation as well as congestion.


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