So you want to force people to move into cities?
I am confused, to be honest.
No, not force. Change our policies that currently favor cars over people and subsidize wasteful sprawl development as well as our transportation policies (we spend SO much on NEW rather than maintenance work, and its disgustingly all for highways). There is a lot to this, so it's not quite that simple and that's a gross simplification in and of itself. Most people already live in cities and their suburbs. In my world view, there is no room for wasteful and expensive suburban expansion. My policies would favor smart urban growth as well as support of our rural farms, small towns, and mid-size cities.
The automobile generally destroyed many of our cities. This particular hits home for me coming from Canton, Ohio, a once mid-size city whose population is mostly still there, but moved out to the suburbs. Now they just drive around, wastefully and expensively, separated from the poor who couldn't afford to leave, and holed themselves in gated communities and communities far away from town with other affluent people. Why? Well, because in the 1950s and 60s we leveled many parts of our cities so cars could zoom through them. Then everyone got racist and left because it sucked to live there anyway. Today, we know better and we know how to build livable cities. You just have to elect people that also understand the mountains of research we've come up with since then.
There are some American cities that are the exception here, but our love affair with the car went to far, and still continues to this day.
And before anyone says anything, I don't think the car is completely evil and in fact view it as a necessary thing for modern day life.
