Isn't it weird to use the word "sprawling" here? A world where major cities are affordable would be more dense. It would be easier to preserve land for its natural beauty. The US today is sprawling.

SFBA (maybe w/ Sacramento Area and Monterey Bay Area), Greater LA, Seattle Area, Portland+Vancouver and that’s just the West Coast. Add in the 4+ in Texas, two or three different parts of Florida and we haven’t even touched on the Northeast or Midwest still.

Nah, the US would not become merely 3 or 4 large sprawling City-States. For all of us city dwellers, there’s plenty that want nothing to do with anything that resembles a City.

Gibson discusses this.

https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sprawl#:~:text=The....

This comment reminds me of https://www.theonion.com/new-study-finds-most-of-earth-s-lan....

What problems do you think would arise from such a situation?