When Democracy Builds / Frank Lloyd Wright

Foreword -- Note -- Earth -- Primitive instincts still alive. The shadow-of-the-wall -- Democracy: the gospel of individuality -- Our present social and economic disease -- The basis of the present city: a makeshift -- The victim of the battle of the increments -- This nation as an experiment -- The case for the individual -- The law of change -- The illusion -- The forces tearing the vortex down -- The exodus -- Descentralization and the new scale of spacing -- When machinery goes to work for the citizen, mobility enables us to go where we want to go -- What thought is urge to action? -- Organic architecture -- The human values of democracy -- The legacy we have received from the pasT -- Broadacre city -- Architecture and acreage are landscape -- The Usonian vision -- The attack upon the cultural lag -- Where and how wil the needed change take effect? -- The Usonian individual and his home -- The Usonian farm -- The architecture of business -- The light that failed -- Educational and cultural services -- The design center -- Time is now -- To have and to hold -- For democracy -- Thre words: organic, integration, democracy -- Afterword, Looking backward.