Of course there are many ancillary activities that could exists outside dense cities as well, because hey, if you like a restaurant you like it both in a big ci

Of course there are many ancillary activities that could exists outside dense cities as well, because hey, if you like a restaurant you like it both in a big city, a small village and in isolate countryside. What's change outside the city is that you typically know the restaurants around by name, so you call them directly not ordering food via some apps. Such restaurants tend to be familiar activities not large enterprises owning many identical places in the world. You also need dentists both in the city and outside, the sole difference is that instead of having 100 dentists in a small area you have one per small village (for instance) but the number of people needed them does not change, so their business does not change much. Long story short ALL business existing in a city can exists outside except those of big actors who need the city scale to exists. > there's no reason why people want to live conveniently near other people. I've left the big city for the Alps and well... I have MUCH more social life now than in the city, simply because being spread means being much less choosy, so instead of isolated ourselves in a bubble of few friends ignoring the rest of the crowd, we almost all meet almost anyone else. Instead of going together somewhere to consume a service like going to a shopping mall you go together in nature or in some friends home for a home party. A much more social activity alone. > some people aren't city people, and some people are. trying to forecast, thinking that everyone's just like you isn't a winning strategy. That's not the point, the point is IF the modern city is sustainable and my answer is no. We can't evolve it, there is no green new deal future for dense cities, while there is a foreseeable future of crescent poverty, issues, unrest and so on. Personally I dream a starship to travel the universe, but it doesn't matter because I can't have it. The point is what we have and what we can or can't have. Giants need the city, but we can't have it in the modern time, so giants will disastrously fall in a decade or so, probably with a world war in the middle, because current economical model can't keep up. Current society can't keep up.