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Sort of. If you don't have roads out to those rural areas you can't bring food into the city. If you don't have power infrastructure out to the sticks, you ca

Sort of. If you don't have roads out to those rural areas you can't bring food into the city. If you don't have power infrastructure out to the sticks, you can't produce food nearly as efficiently. The modern city can't exist without a rural infrastructure. There are a large number of Suburban areas now, that began as smaller towns and cities grew into and filled the gaps between. Those primarily existed as local concentration points to facilitate rural infrastructure at one time.

AstralStorm 7y ago
Food is comparatively not a problem compared to transport of people. * It is not as time sensitive - you can interleave and batch delivery hours. People work hours, unfortunately not yet. * You can use big transport rail for longer distance or big trucks. This increases density vastly. People need some space, crates don't.