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How Frank Lloyd Wright Predicted Modern Suburbs (Broadacre City)
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U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright proposed Broadacre City in the 1930s. It was a vision for a decentralized, low-density city that presaged the exurbs, or the most rural of the suburbs. What did Broadacre City get right, and what did it miss?
Resources on this topic:
- The Disappearing City by FLW: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047936219
- The Suburbanite of FLW's Broadacre City: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096144218797923?casa_token=Ym9IPiU9YloAAAAA%3AXniSCLN0XfasavCJ2xLoH8R8ZMlJoJJlWLD483Sb_JpeZ7Ph3R9Lu83YHoJA8n7bPAKhduI-CPYU
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Written by Dave Amos.
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