"The Disappearing City" 1932 LLOYD WRIGHT, Frank

WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd

[90] pp.

William Farquhar Payson

1932

8 1/2″ x 8 1/2″

The principles set forth in The Disappearing City–Wrights advocacy of creating cities built to human scale, of planning the open spaces, making possible both community places and truly private places, of decentralizing the structure of our civilization–found their most thoughtful expression in his Broadacre City, an idea that grew from the 1932 book into a highly influential theory of city planning–and a radical critique, not only of the unhealthy, unwieldy American city but of his European contemporaries coldly rational urban warehouses for humans (Fowler, Frank Lloyd Wright: Graphic Artist).