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It's not about concentrated versus not concentrated, it talks about the origin of the decisions that lead to how the built environment environment is shaped by the needs and preferences of the people who inhabit it

The book is definitely worth reading. It gets a smidge academic at times, but a moderately interested high schooler could easily parse the entire thing, and it'll forever transform how you view land use issues throughout the world.

I know what you mean as far as skepticism. The modern /western world kind of resists at a philosophical level adopting norms coming from countries that it deems as second class.