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English
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Mormon City Planning, Ebenezer Howard's Garden City and Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City :
A Comparative Analysis of Three Utopian Planning Concepts -
Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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Master's thesis
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"During the last two hundred years, society has changed dramatically from a pre-industrial agrarian society to a complex industrialized state, and this has influenced the manner in which men have thought about utopia. This thesis will deal with the contributions of three men who saw an opportunity for a better world and put those ideas down on paper. The first, Joseph Smith (1805-1844), grew up in the then-emerging areas of Vermont and upstate New York. His founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) in 1830, led to his proposal for a utopian Zion Society, and its ideal plan in the Plat for the City of Zion. The second person, Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) developed his ideas for the Garden City, a workable proposal for a new city that would solve the ills of industrialization that he saw in the large cities like Birmingham and London. His proposal for what would become known as the Garden City was an attempt to integrate the country and the city and make a successful, livable, independent space outside the larger cities. The third individual is Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), who is better known for his contributions to modern architecture than city planning. He designed his ideal city, which he called Broadacres, over the course of many years. These plans were more than just written ideas - they existed, in one form or another, and were influential on later generations of architects and city planners. Therefore this thesis will first compare the three utopian proposals in order to discern the possibility of one having an influence on the others. The second purpose is to determine how each was different from the others, while establishing similarities in their utopian goals and potential execution, and in so doing, compare the actual plans, plats, and figures themselves. The third purpose is to trace the development of utopian ideals from a pre-industrialized state to a well-established industrialized state and examine how the idea utopia remains essentially consistent through variable states of industrialization." [Author's abstract]