I hear what you're saying - I'm in agreement that it's nice to have these traditional towns. And I totally reject high-rise tower living as inhuman and unnatural. But I think we build sprawl everywhere instead of traditional towns, even with small lots smaller than suburban sprawl or the same size anyway, but the stuff is arranged differently not along collector roads + culde sacs, more on a traditional street grid pattern.... it's hard to explain but maybe this will help, you'll see how an out of control federal bureaucracy was responsible for creating the beast known as sprawl: https://youtu.be/d9vDcfH03gs