Wright sketched several pictures of Broadacre City, and with his
students built a large model showing what a typical area might
be like. Some views can be found on the web through Google's
image search. Broadcre City is not meant to be enclosed in the
manner of small towns or isolated rural farms. Life there would
be enriched by its linkages; Broadacre City celebrates mobility,
not small town locality. Wright's claim that isolation only has
value if it can be broken at any moment shows how his proposal
is not an individualist utopia for self-sufficient pioneers. It
is a linked society, with its links defined by the technology of
his time. Were it built today it would have more kinds of links.
Today's denser links produce the opposite problem; insistent
connection that needs to give way to isolation at times, finding
calmness in a sea of flows. Given Wright's dislike of the
crowded city, perhaps our condition would not surprise him, and
for an updated Broadacre he would need to invent new kinds of
distancing a