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[Batman] Does Gotham have a suburban sprawl? We only ever see dense city or wilderness.

Hi, urban planning major at Jump City State College here. In other cities fears of rising crime in urban areas motivated a trend of suburban development. Additional upsides were more green space and less concentrated population in case of a Cold War/supervillain strike. Now of course we're looking at more sustainable development, so I'm wondering why Gotham never seems to have built suburbs in the first place despite not having the best quality of life. Whenever I look at videos from there it's dense skyscrapers, apartment blocks, factories, and rowhomes or it's thick forests like that state park near Wayne Manor.

Is it a land-use thing with the City vs County? Maybe that's an East Coast thing. Were they just very forward-thinking with their urban renewal attempts? I know the Wayne Foundation has been pouring money into the city, but that's only been going on maybe 10-20 years?
gpt
In the animated series, there were a couple of instances of normal looking neighborhoods. 

Poison Ivy once took on the role of loving partner and mother in one, claiming she turned a new leaf (if you'll pardon the pun), but it turns out they were plant clones and she was using them as cover. 

Theres also the time Batman was injured by the Penguin and was saved by a bunch of kids dragging him into their basement.