One way to force people to live in rabbit warrens is to make cars unaffordable to purchase or run, or by taxing them by the mile, already being done here and there. Make home, and especially land ownership prohibitively expensive, and you have them by the short and curlies. All in progress. Meanwhile the uber-rich will be scarfing up as much open land as they can, again, well under way. One advantage the East has over the West is that the rural areas are broken up into smaller parcels, so grabbing big, contiguous chunks is more difficult.
These little 15-minute enclaves are much like traditional villages, except there’s no surrounding open lands to allow folks to let off some steam, just more villages and maybe some downtown areas, plus some parks, which like all city parks will be drug-riddled crime zones full of homeless vagrants and gangs.
