>>1685773Unless you're going to be killing people, they're not "equally sprawly." If you're lowering density, a given population will need a larger area. In the case of Tokyo-Yokohama, trying to give it Houston-level density (~1400 pop /km^2) requires an area about the size of Armenia, which isn't actually geographically possible in a narrow, mountainous country like Japan.
>with lots of green spaceThose are often non-native plant species kept trimmed and processed. A poor simulation of nature.