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That separateness should not be indulged, suburbanites need to be urbanized by force. Do the 15 minute cities conspiracy but only to owners of SUVs and trucks with empty beds.
rhetorically i agree but in material terms suburbs have a lot in place that could be turned over to communities that support and supply urban areas, just reverse the flows of resources & power. we wouldn't need all the people that'd work on new farms, upkeep renewable energy fields, recycle suburban waste to commute from the glorious new commie-blocs when they could be put up in surpluses of housing we'd only need to not tear down (well, maybe modify into more efficient multifamily buildings, but it'll still be cheaper than brand-new)
A lot of suburbs are built on what used to be farmland and could be turned back into farmland after densifying the bulk of their populations into the cities, but in order to do that would require demolishing the vast majority of the existing suburban housing. And that wouldn't really be that much of a loss since suburban housing, in addition to being a horrible use of land, also tends to be built out of wood and plasterboard
Good luck