What did Frank Lloyd Wright call his vision for a decentralized city?

Frank Lloyd Wright called his vision for a decentralized city Broadacre City.

Wright presented the concept in his 1932 book The Disappearing City and continued refining it in later writings, including When Democracy Builds and The Living City. Rather than concentrating people in dense urban centers, the proposal dispersed homes, farms, small factories, schools, and civic facilities across a broad landscape.

A central feature was the idea that each family would have roughly one acre of land. Automobiles and highways would connect the scattered settlement, while decentralized ownership and access to land would replace the crowded industrial city Wright criticized. The name therefore refers to both the physical scale of the plan and its social ideal.

Wright’s model was never built as a complete city. A large twelve-by-twelve-foot model, representing a hypothetical four-square-mile community, was exhibited in 1935 and is now associated with the Museum of Modern Art. Broadacre City is sometimes confused with Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City or Le Corbusier’s Radiant City, but those were different planning visions.