Cities
Pretty simple. No one wants to live in a city unless they have no choice. (With a few exceptions). Why would anyone want to go downtown to shop, movies, restaurants and pay to park, and risk mugging, etc.
I choose to live as far away from cities as I can, I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
Incidently, the by products of "the politics of poverty" are with us everywhere, not just in the cites.