Archive for December, 2009

use of open country

Friday, December 18th, 2009

The use of open country conflicts with its preservation. This is just as true for the major city-landscape visions of the past: Ebenezer Howard’s “Garden City,” Frederick Lay Olmsted’s “Suburb,” Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Broadacre City,” Le Corbusier’s “Ville Radieuse,” Ernst May’s “New Frankfurt,” Lewis Mumford’s “Culture of Cities,” and Ludwig Hilbersheimer’s “New Regional Pattern” all [...]