We need to make sure that there are opportunities outside of dense city cores. Office towers are nothing but smoke stacks of the tech era.
Promote remote work, stronger labor laws (and unions) for industrial workers, etc.
Do you have data or an ideology or something? Seems like you’ve been radicalized to a point of view, but by what?
It means that if you want your life to become better, you have to move in closer to the large cities. In turn, this means that your living conditions will worsen.
> That's why i don't bitch about car being way, way more subsidized than train/buses in my city
My state is doing the inverse. We (heavily) subsidize transit, and our car infrastructure is paid for by user fees ( https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-infrastructur... ). The results aren't so great.
In short: no large city in Europe, US, or Japan managed to lower housing sale prices by increasing housing density and building transit. This is even tacitly acknowledged by urbanists. The best result that I found in literature, was a one-time 5-8% decrease in _rental_ costs immediately near the new construction.
But the negative effects are clear: people have to pay ever-rising costs for worse and worse housing. With the "upside" being "near to theaters and museums" (that people visit maybe once a year).
> Seems like you’ve been radicalized to a point of view, but by what?
By urbanist propaganda resulting in visible misery.
It has turned from a useful science of "how to make living in cities better" to "how to force more density onto people".
where has this actually been done?
However, it's been done a bunch of times accidentally. One really great example: Copenhagen in Denmark. Its population actually decreased after the initial boom, it's only now back up to the levels of early 70-s: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20894/cope...
As a result, the overall Danish well-being and economics improved compared to neighboring countries. I believe, that this is very much a part of the reason for the "Danish Bumblebee" economy (meaning that it shouldn't be able to fly, but does).
And Copenhagen is routinely scored as one of the best cities on the planet.
If this is the only upside you see in cities, then maybe you need to do more research.