All you're describing is population redistribution, not population creation. Urban centers have very low fertility rates, which actually reduces populations...
People don't live in caves, they will create light pollution everywhere, anyway. Might as well put them in small and dense population centers.
I hate reading comprehension these days :-)
That's demonstrably false, population centers are created all the time. The fact that populations don't spontaneously appear is irrelevant.
Again, reading comprehension, context, and I guess, typical techie obtuseness.