(Donaldson, Scott. The Suburban Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Print.)
On Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City: "Broadacre City is no city at all, but an anti-city; Wright 'believes that cities should be abolished and that everyone should have at least an acre of land to live on' (Mumford, Ground Up, p. 81). Wright never did like cities much, and used to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson's remark about cities making men artificial. So it is not surprising that Broadacre is decentralized, horizontal (the horizontal is the line of man in love with nature, Wright wrote, the vertical the line of man against nature), low in population density, self-contained, and self-sufficient--a Jeffersonian community put down in the twentieth century." (79)
