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Broadacre City was an urban or suburban development concept proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright throughout most of his lifetime. He presented the idea in his book The Disappearing City in 1932. A few years later he unveiled a very detailed twelve-by-twelve-foot (3.7 × 3.7 m) scale model representing a hypothetical four-square-mile (10 km 2) community.
Sep 8, 2017 · That, according to Cornelia Brierly, is how Frank Lloyd Wright described his concept for Broadacre City—a new type of city that would flow across the landscape changing with the terrain and needs of the individual citizen.
Jan 4, 2017 · It is a city of pre-fabricated houses, built under zoning regulations plotted in advance to keep everything under control from the very start. That same year, Wright summed up his vision in a...
Oct 1, 2018 · On April 15, 1935, in the heart of Rockefeller Center in New York, Frank Lloyd Wright mounted an exhibition featuring a radical project called Broadacre City, in which he proposed to resettle the entire population of the United States onto individual homesteads.
Feb 3, 2014 · One of the largest and most expansive models is that of Broadacre City—Frank Lloyd Wright’s utopian reimagining of the city as open space and landscape rather than skyscraper and skyline.
May 22, 2014 · Broadacre City is so broad, so horizontal, that it barely makes sense to call it a city anymore. The subtitle of the MOMA show—“Density vs. Dispersal”—suggests a dilemma, a choice.
work was directed by his vision of an ideal city, called Broadacre City. Though primarily a domestic architect, and a resident of rural Wisconsin and the Arizona desert, he wanted to plan a city. In The Disappearing City (1932) he proclaimed that the megalopolis soon would begin to disappear, absorbed into a new
Broadacre City was Frank Lloyd Wright's passionate plea for the radical decentralization and redistribution of the American City over the entire territory of the United States. Although coined "Broadacre City," Wright's vision barely resembled anything that would have normally been termed "city." Rather, Broadacre City is the reflection of a ...
Jan 12, 2022 · Jennifer Gray speaks with designer David Romero about his research and process when creating a virtual model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ambitious Broadacre City concept.
Nov 9, 2018 · Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City seems anomalous in twentieth century urban history. First presented in 1930 as a critique of existing American cities, the project developed into a program for territorial decentralization over the ensuing decade.
