" It was not, however, until the early 1930s that he began to think seriously about how an entire community might be laid out in a less rigidly urban and more expansively suburban fashion. The result he called Broadacre City. A model was made at Taliesin in 1933 to demonstrate how Wright’s concept of a decentralized, low-density, self-sufficient community, based on humanistic and organic values, might work in practice. But there was little support for Wright’s vision, founded as it was upon a plethora of liberal concepts that proved unacceptable to politicians and uneconomic to developers. As a result, Broadacre City was largely ignored as impractical and utopian. "
Paul E. Sprague
From Grove Art Online
© 2009 Oxford University Press (><)
From Grove Art Online
