Being a nature loving person who currently lives in the sprawl(but the wrong side of Tokyo bay), I have to say there are a lot of people who do want to live like that, and thats great for them, I don't understand it but, leave all the mountains empty for me and my fellow ramblers. The only problem is that as long as democracy is people weighted and not land weighted, all the big empty space will be controlled by people who have no connection to or value for it. so they will just let it become the site of extraction, or to build high ways, or wind turbines, etc.