72 The end of the line. The railway radically altered the personal outlooks and patterns of social interdependence. It bred and nurtured the American Dream. It created to­ tally new urban, social, and family worlds. New ways of work. New ways of management. New legislation. The technology of the railway created the myth of a green pasture world of innocence. It satisfied man's desire to withdraw from society, symbolized by the city, to a rural setting where he could recover his animal and natural self. It was the pas­ toral ideal, a Jeffersonian world, an agrarian de­ mocracy which was intended to serve as a guide to social policy. It gave us darkest suburbia and its lasting symbol: the lawnmower. The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis. What remains of the con­ figuration of former "cities" will be very much like World's Fairs—places in which to show off new technology, not places of work or residence. They will be preserved, museumlike, as living monu­ ments to the railway era. If we were to dispose of the city now, future societies would reconstruct them, like so­many Williamsburgs.