Broadacre City Frank Lloyd Wright

Utopian Dystopia
- Suburban development
- Conceptualized by Frank
Lloyd
Wright in !"#
- Decentralization
- $eturn to rural community
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%veryone receive one acre o& land
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Build a o'n house( &arm
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)ll institutions are decentralized
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spra'ling and 'idespread
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%ach person had a right to o'n a car
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Use much gasoline as desired
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*advance o& agent decentralization+
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Connected 'ith streets( giant high'ays
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,eep transit at minimum
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Failure and success
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-oo real to be Utopian and too dreamlike to be o& practical importance
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demands motor transportation &or even the most casual or ephemeral meetings
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didn.t see the large population increase
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Decentralization( both physically and
economically
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Urban spra'l has become a reality