Wright's pattern is closer to today's sprawl than it is to a city, but it is not the same as today's sprawl.
The land uses estimated from Wright's model lead to a density of about five hundred persons per square mile, which is much lower than current suburban densities, which are often above two or three thousand per square mile.
Wright was not envisioning today's suburbs outside central cities but a more diffuse pattern such as we find further out from cities, though those areas lack the mix of uses and incomes that he sought.
Broadacre City is in fact what Wright says it is, a new kind of settlement pattern, mixing housing, production, commerce, and cultural facilities in new ways that would not fit the current urban or suburban patterns.
(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001