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035 (OCoLC)905343852
037 |bPrinceton Univ Pr, C/O Perseus Distribution 210 American
Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301|nSAN 631-760X
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100 1 Levine, Neil,|d1941-|eauthor.
245 14 The urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright /|cNeil Levine.
264 1 Princeton, New Jersey :|bPrinceton University Press,
|c[2016]
300 xvii, 446 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c26 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
336 still image|bsti|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Conceived and developed as a companion volume to The
Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 Suburbs in the grid: the new Streetcar City. Wright's
first urban design initiative: the development plan for
the Roberts Block, 1896 -- The quadruple block plan as the
framework for the Ladies' Home Journal "Home in a Prairie
Town," 1900-1901 -- The Roberts Block revisited, 1903-4,
the city beautiful, and the garden city -- The quadruple
block plan expanded into an entire neighborhood scheme for
the Chicago city club competition of 1912-13 -- The city
in question at the dawn of the automobile age. Congestion
and its remedies in the skyscraper city of the 1920s --
Decentralization versus centralization: Broadacre City's
ruralist alternative to le corbusier's urbanism, 1929-35 -
- New visions for the city center : urbanism under the
hegemony of the automobile -- A civic center megastructure
for the lakefront of Madison, Wisconsin, 1938 -- Crystal
City: a highrise, mixed-use, superblock development for
Washington, D.C., 1940 -- The Point Park Civic Center and
traffic interchange for the heart of downtown Pittsburgh,
1947 -- Plan for the expansion of Baghdad anchored by a
cultural center, 1957.
520 "This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's
designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly
comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents
a radically new interpretation of the architect's work and
offers new and important perspectives on the history of
modernism. Neil Levine places Wright's projects, produced
over more than fifty years, within their historical,
cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to
the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the
twentieth century. Levine overturns the conventional view
of Wright as an architect who deplored the city and whose
urban vision was limited to a utopian plan for a network
of agrarian communities he called Broadacre City. Rather,
Levine reveals Wright's larger, more varied, interesting,
and complex urbanism, demonstrated across the span of his
lengthy career. Beginning with Wright's plans from the
late 1890s through the early 1910s for reforming
residential urban neighborhoods, mainly in Chicago, and
continuing through projects from the 1920s through the
1950s for commercial, mixed-use, civic, and cultural
centers for Chicago, Madison, Washington, Pittsburgh, and
Baghdad, Levine demonstrates Wright's place among the
leading contributors to the creation of the modern city.
Wright's often spectacular designs are shown to be those
of an innovative precursor and creative participant in the
world of ideas that shaped the modern metropolis."--
Publisher's description.
600 10 Wright, Frank Lloyd,|d1867-1959|xCriticism and
interpretation.
600 10 Wright, Frank Lloyd,|d1867-1959.
600 17 Wright, Frank Lloyd,|d1867-1959.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00032949
648 7 1900 - 1999|2fast
648 7 1900-talet|2sao
650 0 City planning|xHistory|y20th century.
650 7 City planning.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00862177
650 7 Stadsplanering|xhistoria.|2sao
655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
994 C0|bGWV
