You're referring to tax structure. It's a form of wealth redistribution; corporations in the city center, and businesses in dense strip malls all around, are the big earners in the city. Suburbanites already feel like they pay high taxes on their houses, at a discount, notwithstanding the obscene cost of mortgages.
You could drastically revamp zoning laws and still living in the outskirts would be less expensive (See: Japan). Of course we should do this because it creates more options and opportunities for consumers and which NATURALLY increase density of cities without the need for senseless coercion.
You could drastically revamp zoning laws and still living in the outskirts would be less expensive (See: Japan). Of course we should do this because it creates more options and opportunities for consumers and which NATURALLY increase density of cities without the need for senseless coercion.