Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century
Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century The utopian visions of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries.Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, hated the cities of their time with…
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Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century
The utopian visions of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries.Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. In this book Robert Fishman examines the utopian visions of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens.
Howard created the concept of the "garden city" where shops and cottages formed the center of a geometric pattern with farmland surrounding; Wright conceived of "Broadacre City," the ultimate suburb, where the automobile was king; and Le Corbusier imagined "Ville Radieuse," the city of cruciform skyscrapers set down in open