The physical embodiment (uitdrukking) of Wright’s utopian vision was Broadacre City.
Given the simple exercise of several inherently just right of man, the freedom to decentralize,
to redistribute and to correlate the properties of the life of man on earth to his birthright - the
ground itself - and Broadacre City becomes reality.
In Broadacre all is symmetrical but it is seldom obviously and never academic so.
The three major inventions already at work building Broadacres, whether the powers that
over-built the old cities otherwise like it or not, are:
1. The motor car: general mobilization of the human being.
2. Radio, telephone and telegraph: electrical intercommunication becoming complete.
3. Standardized machine-shop production: machine invention plus scientific discovery.
Three inherent rights of any man:
1. His social right to direct medium of exchange in place of gold as a commodity: some
form of social credit.
2. His social right to his place on the ground as he has had it in the sun and air: land to
be held only by use and improvements.
3. His social right to the ideas by which and for which he lives: public ownership of
invention and scientific discoveries that concern the life of the people.
To reiterate (herhalen): the basis of the whole is general decentralization as an applied
principle and architectural reintegration of all units into one fabric; free use of the ground
held only by use and improvements; public utilities and government itself owned by the
people of Broadacre City; privacy on one’s own ground for all and a fair means of
subsistence for all by way of their own work on their own ground or in their own laboratory or
in common offices serving the life of the whole.
Given the simple exercise of several inherently just right of man, the freedom to decentralize,
to redistribute and to correlate the properties of the life of man on earth to his birthright - the
ground itself - and Broadacre City becomes reality.
In Broadacre all is symmetrical but it is seldom obviously and never academic so.
The three major inventions already at work building Broadacres, whether the powers that
over-built the old cities otherwise like it or not, are:
1. The motor car: general mobilization of the human being.
2. Radio, telephone and telegraph: electrical intercommunication becoming complete.
3. Standardized machine-shop production: machine invention plus scientific discovery.
Three inherent rights of any man:
1. His social right to direct medium of exchange in place of gold as a commodity: some
form of social credit.
2. His social right to his place on the ground as he has had it in the sun and air: land to
be held only by use and improvements.
3. His social right to the ideas by which and for which he lives: public ownership of
invention and scientific discoveries that concern the life of the people.
To reiterate (herhalen): the basis of the whole is general decentralization as an applied
principle and architectural reintegration of all units into one fabric; free use of the ground
held only by use and improvements; public utilities and government itself owned by the
people of Broadacre City; privacy on one’s own ground for all and a fair means of
subsistence for all by way of their own work on their own ground or in their own laboratory or
in common offices serving the life of the whole.
