Car culture is so big in the US that outside of the few cities with really bad traffic problems, nobody cares about sprawl. The vast majority of everyone's exp

Car culture is so big in the US that outside of the few cities with really bad traffic problems, nobody cares about sprawl. The vast majority of everyone's experience of public transportation is shitty, slow busses and commuter trains with limited schedules and stops that you drive to. So cities that force you to use public transit sound really unappealing to people that haven't experienced something like Tokyo. These two factors are why Americans don't have much concern about urban planning.