Depends on the country probably. In my country villages are very often https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_set

Depends on the country probably. In my country villages are very often https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_settlement , going on for kilometers along some road, with farming land on both sides. Small to medium cities (< 100 000 people) are often very dense because they're mostly made out of commieblocks or old tenament houses. It's much easier to live without a car in a city. BTW: this village goes on for 20 km. It has 6000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawoja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawoja For comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionowo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionowo is the most densely populated city in Poland, it has about 50 000 people, and is about 3x5 km of low buildings. And still about 10% of the city is a forest :) Cars waste so much space that people are used to bloated cities.