Frank Lloyd Wright

UTOPIA

	Date: 1977 Title: Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Basic Books, Inc., New York) Author: Fishman, Robert Description: "Is there an ideal city for the twentieth century, a city that best combines the power of beauty of modern technology with the most enlightened ideas of social justice? Between 1800 and 1930 three planners - Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier - tried to answer that question. They began by designing their own urban utopias and worked out their plans in meticulous detail, creating important innovations in housing, transportation, and other aspects of urban design. And then the three planners set out to make their cities a reality..." (Dust jacket) Includes 14 photographs and illustrations related to Wright. Original list price $13.95. (First Edition) Size: 6.25 x 9.3. Pages: Pp 332 S#: 2033.11.0313

	Date: 1994 Title: Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. (Soft Cover) (Published by MIT Press) Author: Fishman, Robert Description: First published in soft cover by MIT Press in 1982. "As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they '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. 'Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century’ is the story of the dreams of these three men, each of whom saw the salvation of civilization in his own particular urban vision. Their ideal cities resembled each other no more than they resembled real cities... Wright... conceived of 'Broadacre City,' the ultimate suburb where the automobile was king..." (Back cover) (Fifth Edition) Size: 6 x 9.5 Pages: Pp 332 ST#: 1982.03.0301