Consider that many cities aren&#x27;t &quot;concrete paradise&quot; despite being high density. A large proportion of London is parkland. Parts of my suburb is outright rural, and I live in an area full of terraced houses with gardens, and about a dozen parks within walking distance, of which one is a &quot;country park&quot; where you can easily walk for half an hour without seeing a car - or other people.<p>London still has a density of 5,437&#x2F;km2 (14,080&#x2F;sq mi).<p>Yes, some of the inner boroughs have little green space, but even most of them have large parks.<p>As for being based on the needs of capitalism over humans, I don&#x27;t agree. It is both. I don&#x27;t want to live in the countryside, or in a small town. I moved this &quot;far out&quot; because this is where it was affordable to buy, not because I had any issues with living further in (now that I have a young child, I might have picked an area like this for that reason, but not for myself).<p>There are appeals to many of living in a big city. In just living near the edge of one, I still miss the days when I lived two minutes from Oxford Street (one of the busiest shopping streets in Central London) and could wander out at 3am and walk a couple of minutes to buy ice cream, or could go out during the weekend and just walk to Soho where the big night clubs are (I don&#x27;t care so much about that any more, but in my 20&#x27;s that was a big plus), and could walk home rather than depend on expensive cab rides or rare night trains.<p>A lot of the reasons we seek together in big cities are not about (just) jobs, but about the social factors and the network effects that for many makes it hard to imagine living somewhere smaller after you&#x27;ve come to expect there to always be something to do or see, or people to meet, no more than a few blocks away, any time, day or night.