This is more or less how Copenhagen is built. It's most famous for the high degree of biking in the city (~50% of people living in the city proper commute by bi

This is more or less how Copenhagen is built. It's most famous for the high degree of biking in the city (~50% of people living in the city proper commute by bike), but if you take the metro area as a whole, it's surprisingly sprawling. Of 1.5m total people, only about 500k live in the city, and the other 1m live in the suburbs, which spread out to a surprisingly large radius considering that it's not that large of a population (the outer suburbs are about 40-50km from downtown). However that quite geographically large sprawl is mostly channeled along five main corridors [1], with a fairly fast commuter-rail system serving as the backbone of each corridor. That allows having large expanses of single-family homes, but still good transit access. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Plan