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This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wrights designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architects work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wrights projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century. Levine overturns the conventional view of Wright as an architect who deplored the city and whose urban vision was limited to a utopian plan for a network of agrarian communities he called Broadacre City. Rather, Levine reveals Wrights larger, more varied, interesting, and complex urbanism, demonstrated across the span of his lengthy career.