>>723803742
>individual houses each resident owns packed together bad
>tiny apartments in a building they don't own good
also you're just wrong
the only people living in relatively rural areas were hunters and distant farmers, as opposed to the majority who lived closer to cities and farmed smaller tracts of land around it OR lived in nucleated villages where the farmland spread out from one central living area
almost all examples we have of stone-age villages from around the world have the huts arranged relatively close together, but usually individual to one family group
very few people historically lived in the middle of bumfuck by themselves, it's not safe