Abstract
The aim of this paper is to evaluate an philosophy of city planning by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), a famous architect, in the context of modem American city planning by specifically scrutinizing his discourses on 'The Living City' (1958) where the Broadacre City was proposed, and to identify philosophical influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), a famous philosopher, on agrarian thought of Wright. After collecting exhaustively Wright's discourses on agriculture and the Broadacre City together with Emerson's discourses on agriculture, we categorized and compared them to clarify any similarity and difference. We concluded that the Wright's agrarian thoughts have strong influence from Emerson's agrarian thoughts in the context of transcendentalism, and Wright designed his ideal city where farmers have genuine lives in the form of Broadacre City.
