Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le CorbusierMIT Press, 1982 M09 16 - 384 pages 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. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens. In this book Robert Fishman examines the utopian visions of three of urban planning’s greatest visionaries. 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 parkland. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
The Ideal City Made Practicable | 23 |
Design for Cooperation | 40 |
Building the Garden City | 64 |
Beyond the Grave | 82 |
An American Boyhood | 97 |
Chicago and Oak Park | 102 |
In the Wilderness | 115 |
SelfCreation | 165 |
Architecture or Revolution | 182 |
The Contemporary City | 188 |
Plan Voisin | 205 |
The Ghost of Colbert | 213 |
The Radiant City | 226 |
Quest for Authority | 235 |
Vichy | 243 |
Broadacre City | 122 |
Community and Culture | 135 |
Prophetic Leadership | 142 |
The Living City | 152 |
Summation | 156 |
Le Corbusier | 161 |
Contrasts | 163 |
Triumph and Disillusionment | 253 |
Summation | 258 |
CONCLUSION | 265 |
NOTES | 279 |
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