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This is the key here. America's McMansion hellscapes didn't spring fully formed from the severed ballsack of Zeus, they were crafted over decades as a political project. Urban centers had their money sapped away to subsidize them, propaganda was run to convince people to move to them, and so on. It would take a similar decades-long political project, but it is absolutely within our ability as a society to draw people out of them and into more sustainable living arrangements - and that doesn't mean that every single person will end up living in an urban environment, it just means that the specific form of highway-centric sprawl that developed to service those postwar suburbs will go away.
i mean, one of the easiest ways to get people to move out of those suburbs is for the cities they are attached to to stop subsidising every part of their infrastructure. I'm pretty sure it's one of the main recommendations that Strong Towns make, at least as far as NotJustBikes has presented it, since the suburbs are insanely expensive infrastructure wise. So if you just begin actually pricing in all the externalities that are currently being forced upon the places with active economies, then the problem will likely revert with decent speed.