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.
Our contemporary problems include trying to attain some isolation that is not constantly being broken into from the outside. Given Wright's dislike of the crowded city, perhaps our condition would not surprise him, and for an updated Broadacre he would need to think out new kinds of distancing as well as new kinds of linking.
(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001