As a city guy, I'm somewhat concerned about how this pattern of remote work may permanently change life in the cities. I enjoy living in a densely populated are

As a city guy, I'm somewhat concerned about how this pattern of remote work may permanently change life in the cities. I enjoy living in a densely populated area and being around people walking to and from work and having spontaneous interactions. If knowledge work becomes largely remote then I think cities could lose a lot of this vibrancy as people may not have a lot of reason to cluster in this way in the future. Side note, Richard Florida's "Rise of the Creative Class" talks about a lot of the effects and benefits of people clustering in cities (but in my opinion he only does a so-so job talking about the causes), and I'd be curious to see what other urban planners think about changes like this.