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Usonia is a term used by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to refer to his vision for the landscape of the United States, including the planning of cities and the architecture of buildings. Wright proposed the use of the adjective Usonian in place of American to describe the particular New World character of the American landscape as distinct and free of previous architectural conventions.
The word itself dates from the 19th century and was used by Samuel Butler, the author of the utopian novel Erewhon, and other futurist British writers in reference to the United States. In this incarnation, it may been the root of the Esperanto word Usono for the United States, although that word may have been created as an acronym for Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Nordameriko.
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