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Babel and Babylon

Babel and Babylon

Aztec cities

Aztec cities

Heavenly Jerusalem

Heavenly Jerusalem

The Fujian Tulou

The Fujian Tulou

Utopia

Utopia

Romorantin, capital of a kingdom...

Romorantin, capital of a kingdom...

The city of brotherly love

The city of brotherly love

Saint Petersburg, Peter's great city

Saint Petersburg, Peter's great city

Industry, socialism and utopia

Industry, socialism and utopia

Taking technology to new heights

Taking technology to new heights

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

A towering challenge...

A towering challenge...

New towns

New towns

Conjuring capitals

Conjuring capitals

Auroville: "divine anarchy"

Auroville: "divine anarchy"

Private cities

Private cities

Dubai: miracle or mirage?

Dubai: miracle or mirage?

All eyes on the horizon

All eyes on the horizon

Home sweet home

The urban explosion did, however, give rise to more concrete solutions. A number of management models appeared, each linked to a specific cultural climate and available space.

In the United States, Frank Lloyd Wright's plans to build Broadacre City sought to create suburban towns in the country, where everyone would have their own house and car. In practice, cities continued to stretch outwards through unbridled suburban sprawl. The phenomenon was amplified by the automotive boom to the point where it came to symbolize middle-class America.

Off the beaten track

The 1931 Census showed that the majority of the French population was now living in towns and cities. It was perhaps this phenomenon that led to the popular usage of slang terms for little-known places in the country, such as Trifouilly-les-Oies or Petaouchnok, pejorative terms roughly the equivalent of the "Back of Beyond" or "Timbuktu", used by city dwellers to describe the towns of their bucolic brethren. That is, until all things rural and natural redrew the priorities map to promote "rurban" living!

List of works

01- Backyards of Housing Sub-division - Kansas City, Missouri

02- Circular Housing Development - Sun City, Arizona

03- Large Houses on Small Lots - Plano, Texas

04- Detail of Cul-de-Sac Sub-Division - Honolulu Area, Hawaii

05- Las Vegas, Nevada

06- Phoenix, Arizona

Alex Maclean

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