People value things differently, including the things you mentioned, and cost is a large driver of that. The only thing cities dislike more than an increasing

People value things differently, including the things you mentioned, and cost is a large driver of that. The only thing cities dislike more than an increasing population is a decreasing one. Given homeostasis is essentially traffic, suburban sprawl, etc we should let areas organically grow and shrink as people make choices. And areas that are appealing now will become unappealing either by cost or changing economies.