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> Isn't this exactly what the author's point #2 ("More and better infrastructure lets us spread out and enjoy more space") was about?

What is there to enjoy with sprawl? Every place ends up being like every other place: (strip) malls, parking lots, stroads, highways, Nature bulldozed, etc.

Everywhere becomes nowhere:

> The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape is a book written in 1993 by James Howard Kunstler exploring the effects of suburban sprawl, civil planning, and the automobile on American society and is an attempt to discover how and why suburbia has ceased to be a credible human habitat, and what society might do about it.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geography_of_Nowhere