We also need to create cities, and revitalize dying ones. There are many small towns in the US and Canada where I'd love to buy a house, but they all tend to suffer from the same terminal decline pattern: crumbling infrastructure, lack of opportunities, and a single WalMart supplying everyone while choking out all other business.

I sometimes daydream about building a city, just one, that prioritises cycling and walking over cars.

If you like cars, you can literally live everywhere else.

In NA there's pretty much only Montreal

Let’s build a second city for those who prefer not to have cars dominate. :)

I guess the question is if that alone is enough of a selling point to form a city.

And then, the issue is always how you prevent the nimbys from taking over once the first batch of housing has been built.

"Build more houses" was meant as a shorthand for "Upzone cities".