04129cam a2200361 i 4500 pucpr 20201106150828.0 150312s2016 njuab b 001 0 eng 9780691167534 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691167532 pucpr eng rda pucpr pucpr CARIBET NA9085.W75 L48 2016 711/.4092 23 Levine, Neil, 1941- author. The urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright / Neil Levine. txt Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016. xvii, 446 p. : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm book rdacontent text txt rdacontent still image sti rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc Conceived and developed as a companion volume to The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Includes bibliographical references and index. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- I: SUBURBS IN THE GRID: THE NEW STREETCAR CITY -- 1 WRIGHT'S FIRST URBAN DESIGN INITIATIVE: THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE ROBERTS BLOCK, 1896 -- 2 THE QUADRUPLE BLOCK PLAN AS THE FRAMEWORK FOR THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL "HOME IN A PRAIRIE TOWN," 1900-1901 -- 3 THE ROBERTS BLOCK REVISITED, 1903-4, THE CITY BEAUTIFUL, AND THE GARDEN CITY -- 4 THE QUADRUPLE BLOCK PLAN EXPANDED INTO AN ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHEME FOR THE CHICAGO CITY CLUB COMPETITION OF 1912-13 -- II: THE CITY IN QUESTION AT THE DAWN OF THE AUTOMOBILE AGE -- 5 CONGESTION AND ITS REMEDIES IN THE SKYSCRAPER CITY OF THE 1920s -- 6 DECENTRALIZATION VERSUS CENTRALIZATION: BROADACRE CITY'S RURALIST ALTERNATIVE TO LE CORBUSIER'S URBANISM, 1929-35 -- III: NEW VISIONS FOR THE CITY CENTER: URBANISM UNDER THE HEGEMONY OF THE AUTOMOBILE -- 7 A CIVIC CENTER MEGASTRUCTURE FOR THE LAKEFRONT OF MADISON, WISCONSIN, 1938 -- 8 CRYSTAL CITY: A HIGHRISE, MIXED-USE, SUPERBLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOR WASHINGTON, D.C., 1940 -- 9 THE POINT PARK CIVIC CENTER AND TRAFFIC INTERCHANGE FOR THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH, 1947 -- 10 PLAN FOR THE EXPANSION OF BAGHDAD ANCHORED BY A CULTURAL CENTER, 1957 -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- CREDITS. "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. Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Criticism and interpretation. City planning History 20th century. City planning 73701 Criticism and interpretation. 214399 Urban Planning History 183429 lcc 6 NA9085.W75 General L48 2016 257971 257971 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2016-12-02 Amazon 37.49 0 General NA9085.W75 L48 2016 91000000052266 2017-03-07 00:00:00 1 47.49 2017-03-06 6