George H. Wyman, Bradbury Building, South Broadway, 1893

In Broadacre City, a vision of the open, democratic city of the future, Frank Lloyd Wright proposed an independent community of single-family dwellings, with all the functions usually assigned to Downtown (the equivalent of the administrative and business center of traditional cities) dispersed throughout the city and easily accessible by private car. Wright first showed his Broadacre City project in 1935, but as early as 1915 Charles Sumner Greene, one of the members of the firm Greene & Greene, had observed that ≪between the automobile mania and the bungalow fad there seems to be a psychic affinity.... They have developed together, simultaneously, and both seem to be the expression of the same need, the same desire for freedom from common conventions≫...[+]