Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacres

Frank Lloyd Wright in his Broadacres combines many different characters used in Ancient landscape designs. One of those characteristics is with the Broadacres designs use of 90 degree streets in areas. The ordinal streets is similar to ones seen in Ancient Romes’s cities such as “Djeila and Timgad” (Ching, pg. 155). The straight lines in the design block certain areas into sections and create form of grouping of buildings in areas of both designs. Although the Broadacres design had ordinal streets it did not have a main street that could take you throughout or a central like in the earlier cities. In one part of the Broadacres design there is a landscape design similar to the Mount Auburn Cemetery. The landscape includes lakes, winding roads,