3. BROADACRE CITY
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● Location :Midwest USA
● Year(s) :1932-1935 [Status: Unbuilt]
● Footprint :4 mi²
● Designer :Frank Lloyd Wright
● Key Components :1 acre devoted per family, suburban
sprawl,minimal apartment living, local
commercialism
● Program(s) :Private
● Title :Local / public amenities
● Funding Streams :Edgar Kauffman
4. -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
“To look at the cross section of any
plan of a big City is to look at
something like the section of a
fibrous tumor.”
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5. ORIGIN
● Technological advancements,
Wright came to believe that the
large, centralized city would soon
become obsolete and people
would return to their rural roots.
● Wright despised the city, both
physically and metaphorically
● individualism, naturalism,
response to automobility.
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6. KEY CONCEPT- Individualism
● Broadacre city planned as
metropolitan decentralization
● Vision of multi-centered, low
density (supposedly 5 people per
acre), auto-oriented suburbia
● Each family would be given one
acre (4,000 sq.m. from the
federal land reserves)
● Land would be taken into public
ownership; then granted to
families for as long as they used
it productively.
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8. CONCEPT
Naturalism
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● Concept of organic design
and usonian architecture.
● "Romantic isolation and
reunion with the soil"
(landscape)
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9. CONCEPT
● 12 x 12 ft. model which might
be applied to a representative
4 miles2 plot of land
● Grid iron pattern in planning
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10. CONCEPT
.
● A community without
experts.
● Everyone's a farmer -
industrial worker - artist:
reminiscence of the "Arts
and Crafts"The ideal for
labour is self-fulfilment.
● There is no administration -
no bureaucracy - but the
architect, who plans the city
and settles its affairs.
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11. CONCEPT
(automobility)
● The concept of an aircraft
in everyone's front yard is a
convincing image of
mobility is unavoidable.
● The roads symbolize
individual freedom
● The technology to cross
and to communicate long
distance facilitates: air, light
and freedom of movement
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13. City of motor age
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● Spacious landscaped
highways, giant roads, pass
public service stations,
● Each citizen of the future
will have all forms of
prerequisite within a radius
of a hundred and fifty miles
of his home by means of his
car or plane
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The man seated in his automobile,” He thought every person should have a
car and, eventually, an “aerator”—a helicopter that could land without a
landing strip.
15. Layout of the city quite uniform
The acre-
● Gave a large amount of freedom
● The family’s domain
● Space to build and grow whatever
they want
PRINCIPLES OF
ORGANIZING
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16. -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
“The fabric of Broadacre city can and will be
spread all over the United States and the
population will return to the natural way of
living. "So we have made provision for the
people who have been divorced from nature
by excessive urban idealism and parasitic
living."”
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PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZING
17. Model of a 4 square miles plot of land
ZONING BY FUNCTION
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18. ZONING BY FUNCTION
Sports and Physical Recreation
Residential
Design center
Medical clinics
Industrial units
Small farms and Dairy
Garages and stores
Airport
Country seat
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22. BUILT SPACE
In spite of the individual-oriented
ideology
Built up in a very strict system
Big and small houses
All North-South oriented
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23. NEGATIVE SPACE
Space between buildings huge
compared to the amount of buildspace
Every family has got at least 4000 m2 of
property
Makes people feel alone in the middle of
the city
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24. INFRASTRUCTURE
The roads follow the landscape
Flat landscape- straight and
orthogonal roads
Curved landscape- roads curve with
the landscape
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30. DENSITY
480 inhabitant/km2 average
High- middle of the area
(zoned for residential use)
Medium- Eastern edge
(multiple public institutions)
Low-Western edge (industry
and farms) 30
31. Failures and Disadvantages of
Broadacre City
● Broadacre city, in theory, exists as an
isolated community
● Too real to be Utopian and too
dream-like to be practical importance
● Demands motor transportation for
even the most casual meetings
● Increase in large population over
short period of time, increase in fuel
price, environmental problems
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32. Lessons from Broadacre City
● Architecture is landscape and
landscape takes on character of
architecture
● Decentralization, both physically and
economically; being more
independent
● American Dream: Land and Home
ownership
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33. Aspect of Broadacre city that
became reality
● The town of broadacre is today’s
reality
● Smaller roads connecting to larger
roads connecting to freeways
● Being able to own land, build a home,
and do what you please with it were
important in Broadacre City
● Wright believed that modern man
has the right to own car and to burn
as much gasoline in driving it as he
desired
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34. CONCLUSION
● The concept - more architectural so considered narrow
● However, it still provides ideal solution to the question of
centralization or decentralization
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35. References
● Frank Lloyd Wright- Broadacre City: Analysis by: Nina Mathiesen, Rikke
Liv Pedersen, Frederik Lyng, Mathias Bagger Poulsen, Johanne
Rønsholt, Rikke Sjelborg, Ove Christensen, Nina Andersen.
● Frank Lloyd Wright’s Utopian Dystopia- Katherine Don | The Transport
Politic
● https://arquiscopio.com/archivo/2013/08/10/broadacre-city/?lang=en
● https://64.media.tumblr.com/0f1403078b65b78df3385bd5bc76453a/tumb
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● Theories and Methods of Urban Design 2018-
● Broadacre City Concept- JN Gvara
● Presentation template by Slidesgo
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