Broadacre City was Frank Lloyd Wright's proposal for a radically decentralised settlement, first set out in his 1932 book The Disappearing City and later developed in The Living City and a large model exhibited in 1935. It imagined dispersing the population across the countryside, with each family allotted around an acre of land and homesteads, small workplaces and farms knit together by the private motor car and new roads. Wright rejected the dense traditional city as obsolete in the age of the automobile, electricity and telecommunications. The scheme blended Jeffersonian agrarianism with faith in modern technology.
Though never built, it served as an intellectual charter for low-density, car-based American settlement and anticipated key features of post-war suburbanisation. It stands as the most fully articulated anti-urban counter-vision to the concentrated modernist city.