Broadacre City by Frank Lloyd Wright

Powerpoint presentation of Broadacre City designed by Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
-FL Wright Introduction
- Aim
- Reasons
- Planning Strategies
- Proposal
- Details

1. Frank Lloyd Wright American architect Write spent his early childhood in a Valley near Spring Green, Wisconsin wrote FLW in his autobiography was lovable. The valley made such an impression on Wright’s sensibilities that he created a code that would make modern cities more like the valley. Born on: 8 June 1867 PLANNING CONCEPTS BY FRANK LLYOLD WRIGHT PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 1

2. 2 PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 2 TIME PHASE OF 1930-1940 POST INDUSTRIALISATION MOTOR VEHICLES BECAME GLOBAL CITIES GROWN UP MORE SPACE FOR CARS THUS ROADS WAS REQUIRED CITIES NEEDED A SOLUTION THE EMERGING ARCHITECTS LIKE LE CORBUSIER AND FL WRITE CAME UP WITH THEIR IDEA OF AN IDEAL CITY. LE CORBUSIER – VERTICAL CITIES F.L WRITE – HORIZONTAL CITIES FLW said with advancement in tech, large centralized city would soon become obsolete & people will return to rural roots.

3. In this way, Broadacre City makes a very specific kind of sense. Horizontal “spread” would leave room for parks, for personal space, for residential areas, for open vistas, and for light and air.  Designed as a landscape, this city concept is an example of decentralized and agrarian urbanism. For him, the central problem was that cities lacked essential elements like space, air, light, and silence . And For write , implicating rules for “proper spacing” were simply true and universal. 3 PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 3 BROADACRE CITY (INTRODUCTION) First appeared in his book “The Disappearing City’” in 1932, this idea city concept is called the MOST PRESCIENT PLANNING MODEL IN AMERICAN HISTORY

4. 4 Individuality Decentralization Automobiles Being that Wright believed in every man’s wright to be his own capitalist. He proposed that each U.S family of 2 be allocated an acre where they can have their gardens, farms and can provide for themselves. Wright embraced decentralisation by focusing on architectural forms that made not much sense in urban scale but fit in with his idealized and undevelopled surroundings. Cars were becoming affordable for the middle class and the automobile fascinated Wright and they were the key to close the gap in distance which eventually would lead to people not having to live in centralised cities.. PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 4 FACTORS Some factors Wright wanted to have integrated into his design for the broadacre city were:

5. 5 PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 5   a 12-foot by 12-foot model that represented 4-square miles  Elements included: farms, factories, offices, schools, parks and recreational spaces, places of worship, a seat of government, and individual houses Wright emphasized: “… little  farms,  little  homes for industry,  little  factories,  little  schools, and a  little  university.”  Reference: https://franklloydwright.org/reading-broadacre/

6. 6 PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 6 BROADACRE CITY TO BUILT ONE-SELF SUFFICIENT UNIT THAT WOULD COVER 4SQ MILES. ACCOMDATE 5000 PEOPLE IN 1400 HOMES EACH FAMILY WOULD BE GIVEN ONE ACRE OF LAND LANDSCAPE HOUSING INDUSTRY FARMING INSTITUTION INFRASTRUCTURE Reference: https://franklloydwright.org/reading-broadacre/

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8. 8 NO PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF PUBLIC NEEDS NO LANDLORD AND TENANT NO “SUBSISTENCE” HOMESTEADS NO TRAFFIC PROBLEM, NO BACK AND FORTH HAUL NO RAILROADS , NO STREETCARS NO GRADE CROSSINGS,  NO POLES ,NO WIRES IN SIGHT , NO DITCHES ALONGSIDE THE ROAD NO HEADLIGHTS , NO LIGHT FIXTURES NO GLARING CEMENT ROADS OR WALKS ,NO TALL BUILDINGS EXCEPT ISOLATED IN PARKS  NO ROADSIDE ADVERTISING ,NO SLUM , NO SCUM  NO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF PRIVATE NEEDS, NO MAJOR OR MINOR AXIS PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 8 A NEW FREEDOM FOR LIVING IN AMERICA Reference: https://franklloydwright.org/reading-broadacre/

9. 9 PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 9 LAND FOR HOUSING REFERENCE -http://www.mediaarchitecture.at/architekturtheorie/broadacre_city/2011_broadacre_model_en.shtml

10. 10 PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 10 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. . LIVING UNITS AND SELF SUFFICIENCY 80% REFERNCE -http://www.mediaarchitecture.at/architekturtheorie/broadacre_city/2011_broadacre_model_en.shtml 100% 64% 43% 21%

11. 11 PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 11 Reference: https://franklloydwright.org/reading-broadacre/

12. 12 PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 12 http://www.mediaarchitecture.at/architekturtheorie/broadacre_city/2011_broadacre_model_en.shtml YEAR 1935 YEAR 1958 IN BOOK - THE LIVING CITY LAYOUT OF AN INDIVIDUAL UNIT

13. 13 AUTOMOBILE DESIGN BY FL WRITE FOR BROADACRE CITY PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 13

14. ASPECTS OF BROADACRE CITY THAT BECAME REALITIES Prevalence of urban sprawl Modern suburbia may have many differences with Broadacre, but there are also many similarities. single-family homes on larger parcels of land with smaller roads connecting to larger roads connecting to freeways. Wright believed that modern man had the right to own a car and to burn as much gasoline in driving it as he desired. 14 PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 14

15. FAILURES AND LESSONS TO LEARNT Too real to be Utopian and too dreamlike to be of practical importance. Demands motor transportation for even the most casual or ephemeral meetings Lessons to be learnt Urban sprawl has become a reality Decentralization, both physically and economically; being more independent 15 PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 15

16. CONCLUSIONS Although the Broadacre city was a utopian concept and never got built but the idea of FLW was to create a city based on decentralization. 16 PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL 16

17. 17 THANKYOU. SUBMITTED BY :- PREETI WADHERA PRIYA PATEL SUBMITTED BY :- PROF. APURVA TOMAR .