ABSTRACT
The authors of the Garden City, the Radiant City, and Broadacre City proposals all imagined radically different relationships between land, capital, and labor as foundations to their utopian visions. In particular, all three argued that the first step toward a society of justice and equity was putting all land to use for the public good – though how they proposed to do this and how they imagined the public good varied dramatically. Intrinsic to their imaginations of how land could be of benefit to all were parallel imaginations of a reconstructed relationship of power between capital and labor. In addition to agreeing that land should be put to the common good, all three agreed that human life should not be organized around or by the imperatives of capital.
