Not only that but the urban vision could come blasting back. If people spend more time at home, they spend more time in their neighborhoods, so they start to care about neighborhood amenities, and suburban just can't compete with urban in the neighborhood amenities (let's wave away cars/driving, noting that in America most cities are actually fairly friendly for driving, as well as have low-density residential districts that are still much more sustainable than the suburbs). Maybe?
I think more time spent at home (both you and your neighbors) will drive demand for more interior space, sound isolation between neighbors, and private outside space, than it will drive desire for neighborhood amenities. (It will increase all of those things, but things higher on that list more.)
I live in a low-ish density section of a city. If I still lived in my old mid-density apartment, I’d have broken my lease early in the pandemic to get out to get more space and not have people walking above me all day.
