Ideal Cities of Wright & Le Corbusier Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Cor

Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland, while Wright was born in America. Both architects grew up away from the great urban centers that they ended up revolutionizing. Frank Lloyd Wright's ideal city was called the Broadacre City, and he presented the first complete plan of it in The Disappearing City, published in 1932. Le Corbusier's ideal city started out as the Contemporary City but soon became the Radiant City. Le Corbusier's first theories on this ideal city appeared in Urbanisme, published in 1924. The Industrial Revolution was one of the main factors that inspired the planning of these ideal cities. Modern technology was making available new materials and new methods of production. Steel framing and curtain wall construction ushered in a new era in high-rise construction, and prefabrication held the promise of faster, less expensive construction for conventional as well as high-rise structures. Both saw industr

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collective services which would be more extensive than that available to the richest individual, including workshops, meeting rooms, day-care facilities, restaurants and shops. In the UnitT would be a full-scale gymnasium; on the roof were tennis courts, swimming pools, and sand beaches. Wright believed that each family should own its own house and that each person should own an acre or more of land in the Broadacre City. Wright maintained, "When every man, woman, and child may be born to put his feet on his own acres and every unborn child finds his acre waiting for him when he is born--then democracy will have been realized." The house Wright designed was the "Usonian" house, and it came in varying sizes, with the smallest having a one-car garage and the largest a five-car garage. The automobile was a revolutionary idea to both Wright and Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier dealt with traffic in his Radiant City in three different ways. There would be a street below ground for heavy trucks, a street at ground level for short journey cars, and streets running north and south and east and west, forming a great axis of the city for fast traffic. At the center of the city would be a railway station that would radiate in all dire
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