Broadacre+City

published in //The Architectural Record// 1935
 * ​ "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"**

Frank Lloyd Wright was a renowned American architect who was responsible for many architectural works including usonian-style homes, prairie-style homes and the social revolutionary “Broadacre City” project. Wright was a white male who was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
 * [|Wright, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959)]**

 Frank Lloyd Wright and his team unveil a revolutionary urban design at Rockefeller Center, New York, in 1935. Wright names the project “Broadacre City.” Broadacre’s design is suppose to control sprawl and eventually do away with cities all together. Broadacre City’s design supports Wright’s belief in American citizen social individuality and self-reliance. Wright depicts Jeffersonian ideology in his model by promoting a democratic and independent agrarian society.
 * Main Argument**

> A county architect would be in charge of allotments and community facilities. > Wright wants American citizens to reinhabit rural areas, be self-reliant, and maintain communication by way of cars and phones. > Wrights beliefs contained anarchist ideas whereas each family “should pursue a combination of manual and intellectual work every day, thus achieving a human wholeness that modern society and cities had destroyed” (Legates and Stout). 
 * Other Ideas in the Article**
 * Wright proposes in “Broadacre City” one-acre land allotments per American citizen, with the family as the center of civilization, and reducing the government’s power to that of mere overseer of land allotments for the people.
 * Also, an advocate for Marxist beliefs, Wright felt “that a system of personal freedom and dignity through land ownership was a way to guarantee social harmony and avoid class struggle” (Legates and Stout).
 * Supported by his Marxist, anarchist, and social revolutionist beliefs, Wright arrogantly creates an architectural plan of his democratic dreams for American citizens, his goal to be free from government management, and his belief that decentralized societies will live more wholesome lives.

Campos, Michelle. “Broadacre City Project.” 2004. //accd.// 10 Oct 2009. <__http:www.accd.edu/broadacre.html__>.
 * Further Reading **

Legates, Richard and Stout, Frederic. Ed. Rev. of “Broadacre City: A New Community Plan,” by Frank Lloyd Wright. __The City Reader__. 10 Oct 2009. 331-32.

Quick read with interesting ideas.
 * Comments**

--Brian Soscia