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[–] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://coolclimate.org/maps

Feel free to zoom in on essentially every city in America. You can even download the raw data yourself.

Further, your Nature study you link, actually read the paper and you find this nugget:

These limiting assumptions were necessary based upon the urban scale scope of this study. Providing additional levels of detail at the building scale would greatly improve the accuracy of the analysis and can be refined in future works. Employing a cradle-to-cradle approach to consider resource reuse, the impact of retrofitting existing building stock over rebuilding; the inclusion of transportation impacts; adding a dynamic time component to investigate material inflows and outflows; and including a detailed time-related analysis of carbon sequestration potential offered by urban greeneries in the simulated environments—are all valuable and important avenues for future work to build on this study and expand its relevance while reducing its limitations. This study therefore acts as a stepping-stone to provide a strong foundation from which extensive future work can be born.

It literally doesn't even model transportation emissions. Considering this whole conversation is about sprawl causing more cars, this is kinda a glaring omission.