There's an easy way to get rid of suburbia: Stop forced integration in cities. As soon as you eliminate housing projects, housing wavers, rent control, etc.,

There's an easy way to get rid of suburbia: Stop forced integration in cities. As soon as you eliminate housing projects, housing wavers, rent control, etc., and allow the market to deal with housing naturally, suburbs become obsolete. However, so long as governments provide cheap or free housing to criminals, dropouts, homeless, and those who in an earlier age we would have sent to sanitariums and rest homes, people are going to flee to safer areas; thus, suburbs. I suppose you could also keep existing housing policies in place, but step the police presence WAY, WAY up, and get significantly harsher on criminals committing even minor offenses. Rudy Giuliani did this in NYC, and New York was able to be wildly diverse, yet also very low crime and a nice place to live. But I'm not sure the will is there in L.A. for a "tough on crime" approach.