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The problem is that it's too late. Urban sprawl already grew so much that it's out of hand, it looks next to impossible to make a public transportation network that would rival the ones we have on our side of the pond. It's not just lack of political (and voter) will, it's simply the sheer impracticality of implementing it.

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Then why are there discussions on gentrification. There are reasons why individuals are moving back into the city, especially the up and coming class of individuals. The new comers to the city are fighting urban sprawl by making the move.

It's a small minority. Even more interesting, while gentrification is arguably the solution/balancing phenomena to this problem, it's generally speaking a term with a negative connotation associated with it.

Only because most US cities do a piss poor job of providing housing support for the poor. That's a failure of policy, not gentrification itself.

I don't see how these problems are insurmountable with a gradually increasing carbon tax. (Setting aside the issue of political will.)

Wouldn't that be tantamount to making it too expensive to live in the country?

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