<i>particular small areas with extremely high pop density might improve if cars were banned</i><p>Cars, on the whole, occupy a single flat level. Why don&#x27;t buildings spread out over roads as the norm? rather than the occasional oddity of a road tunneling thru a building, why isn&#x27;t that the norm? Ventilation etc problems can be solved. There&#x27;s N stories of unused space over the roads; leave the first 2-3 stories for road tunneling, and fill in the building-sized empty spaces above.