Critical text by Frank Lloyd Wright. "[...] The Living City is another startling act of prophecy. This matter of immediate concern to us and to our children, the nature of the coming city, has been a matter of continuous concern - and inspired work - for the world's greatest architect for fifty years. And in this book he has crystallized that thought and embodied that unparalleled experience. In 1901 Frank Lloyd Wright delivered his epoch-making lecture at Hull House on the society which we could shape out of the Machine Age. In 1930 he gave the renowned lecture on The City at Princeton University. In 1932 he published his now classic indictment as The Disappearing City. In 1945 he carried criticism forward to challenge and affirmation in the book When Democracy Builds. Through the years he has worked intensively on this book, expanding it, rewriting it completely, pouring into it constantly all his ideas up to the present. This new book is the result. He considers The City Living his most important work on this subject of greatest urgency - more and more the subject of headline and broadcast throughout the world. And he has illustrated this book on the ideal city with many original drawings, sketches and plans - of a truly dazzling variety." Includes an appendix, a list of illustrations, and a full-color foldout of the plan for Broadacre City.