The main premise of this article is that suburbanization led to increased long-term infrastructure costs (because sparse populations require more per-capita spe

The main premise of this article is that suburbanization led to increased long-term infrastructure costs (because sparse populations require more per-capita spending to deliver power, plumbing, roads, etc.), but failed to generate a commensurate increase in tax revenue. This is much less of a problem than it it seems because: 1. The population is becoming increasingly urban. The trend of suburbanization has not only stopped, it has been reversing for several decades now. 2. When infrastructure fails, there's a very strong incentive to raise money to improve infrastructure. Admittedly this is less effective than preventing failures in the first place, but the challenge of raising tax dollars to fix a bridge becomes much easier when residents can no longer use said bridge to commute and thus have a much larger incentive to pay the necessary taxes.