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Except we already have built it wrong. Maybe if the government bought all of those houses and re-zomed the land forbidding houses but we're talking more than 10 million homes (probably WAY more) probably $4 trillion+ and that isn't even accounting for building new infrastructure. Not to mention people would refuse to leave their land. Realistically this is probably a $50 trillion undertaking.
Money's just an object. Just do maybe 3 or 4 five year plans, and you'd probably be able to get there. If they don't like it, eminent domain their asses. I dunno. It's not a real obstacle, to me, that they're deciding to intentionally be obstinate and intentionally deciding to make all their neighbor's QoL worse. Just an slightly smaller version of the problem where some iowan baron decides it's their right to dump their 84 million people's worth of pig shit into a massive pig shit lagoon, tainting 70 something percent of the water supply. Except in this case, people aren't getting malaria and we're not having water quality issues. Instead, they're getting heart disease and increased risks of lung cancer from needing to drive everywhere, they're having to work fruitlessly on road and utilities maintenance jobs for longer, and grandma dies maybe 10 years earlier than she would've cause she was 5 miles away and nobody was able to notice that she wasn't coming out of the house.
It's not a big obstacle to your theory in your mind. A lot of rural people would go to war before being forced to abandon their properties. It becomes a pretty big problem to reality then. And in some of the more rural areas the backroad dirt or gravel connectors are maintained by the residents. You should spend a couple of days exploring the upper peninsula in Michigan. You need at minimum an AWD vehicle with a foot of ground clearance. There's honestly like one paved road.
I don't live in a place like that, I live in a shitty suburb with no sidewalks or bike lanes, or even a shoulder on the road. You can't go anywhere without a car, it's deadly. But I do vacation in places like I was describing almost exclusively. And most of them would never move to a city. But you'd just force them? My politics are anti-authoritarian. If I understand you correctly, you would empower monsters to do heinous things to your own citizens.
Yeah, i would empower monsters to do heinous things to my citizens, like forcing them to live in a rural village where someone will care for them when they're old, and their utilities layouts will make sense, and their cost of living and lifestyle footprint will massively decrease. Oh no! The horror!
Also, I dunno. ahh, they'll go to war, how horrifying! whatever shall we do! How many of these people will actually go to war, though? That's some shit that floats around a lot, but I realistically think that if you just kick someone into some situation that's realistically better than what they were previously hucking, then they'd probably just take it. IF you really wanted to swing it, though, then you could just swing it all through the markets and then fuck them over that way, just like they're already being fucked. Not many people actually have that killdozer gene in them, though, and they wouldn't really have a good target. There's no amount of "blowing stuff up" or "going to war" that can realistically bring back a, by it's nature, highly vulnerable, detached development style like that, and blowing stuff up doesn't really help you contest with whatever your current standards of living are.
Lemme ask you this, though. How do you think we should solve the problem of the suburbs? Do you think a market solution is going to operate fast enough? Do you think those solutions are going to solve the broader problems with the housing crisis popping up in every major city? Do you think they will be enacted fast enough to mitigate climate problems?