The Living City

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
THE LIVING CITY
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
NOTE
NATURE
Earth
The Shadow-of-the-Wall—
Primitive Instincts Still Alive
Democracy: Gospel of Individuality
ILLUSION
Social and Economic Disease
A Makeshift
Rent
The Artifex
An Experiment
The Culture Lag
For the Individual
The Inexorable Law of Change
Illusion
The Light of Day
Forces Tearing the Vortex Down
Looking Backward
Freedom—or Conscription
DECENTRALIZATION
Integration on the New Scale of Spacing
Broadacres
Analysis
Democracy by Definition
Land and Money
Organic Architecture
Action
Feudal
Our Architecture
The New City
Usonia
Values
Recapitulation
USONIAN
A Legacy We Have Received From the Past
Individuality
Specious Authority
Architecture and Acreage Together Are Landscape
The Usonian Vision
Miseducation
To Begin
Change Will Take Effect
The Word "Organic”
The Usonian on His Own Acreage
The Teen-Ager
Life a Well-Calculated Risk
The Usonian Farmer—
The Integration of the Family
The Great Mouth
“Business" and Architecture
INDUSTRIALIZATION The Factory
Business Offices
The Professional
Bank, Banker, and Banking
Markets
The Realtor
Apartments
Motels
Community Centers
The New Theater
The Light That Failed
Church Building
The Hospital
Education and Culture
Universities
Schools
Source of Design—The Design Center
THE PRESENT
The Usonian
The New Pioneer
Nature
To Have and to Hold
Latter-day Civilization
Democracy in Overalls
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The Awakened Citizen
The Awakened Citizen
Romance
Architecture
Discipline
“Where There Is No Vision the People Perish”
The Wage Slave
Night Is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun
From
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essay on FARMING