Why do you imagine that rural towns are all terrible suburban sprawl? The issue is that we have allowed our built environment to become too centralized. In tha

Why do you imagine that rural towns are all terrible suburban sprawl? The issue is that we have allowed our built environment to become too centralized. In that sense the Boom Cities ARE the problem. Instead of one strip mall a dozen corner stores on an old school, "It's a wonderful life" small town main streets we have Times Square, and a bunch of overbuilt "new urbanist" attempts to mimic the magic that took 200 years to build. Leon Krier has made this point visually here. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUX70P7UYAEchHS.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUX70P7UYAEchHS.jpg:large