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07.01.08Blueprints Revived: Urban Planning in SL?Frank Lloyd Wright visited Baghdad, Iraq in 1957, at the age of 89, at the request of King Faisal II alongside other prominent architects such as Le Corbusier, Gio Ponti, and Walter Gropuis. Afterwards, Wright drew up urban planning blueprints for Baghdad in the hopes that his vision would come to fruition. Faisal was assissinated, though, and the plans fell into the dustbin of history. via Ubiwar Tim Stevens writes a fascinating entry at his personal blog, Ubiwar, about this history and provides sketches of Wright's 'Plan for Greater Baghdad,' summarizing it in this way: Lloyd Wright’s “Plan for Greater Baghdad” was drawn ...
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