The only civilian housing allowed to be built in most areas is single family, low density housing which manufactures scarcity.
There’s also the requirement for driveways and huge front lawns that ensure car dependency further raising the effective cost of living.
We don’t need skyscrapers but we do need something more dense than the traditional single family homes as the cost to maintain our cities and to live as individuals balloon to unforeseen levels.
We’ve taken a lot from Americans and lessons about how to run a city should never be one of them.
We should build more two or three story walk ups like Montreal has in the older neighborhoods. Places like the Plateau or St. Henri are great to live in.
Agreed, I love walking through old Montreal and Quebec City. Old cities (mostly The ones that predate the popularization of the car) feel so much more alive than other cities mostly due to their people first design and interesting architecture
I can’t speak to BC as I’m from NL and have only spent time in here, Ontario and Quebec.
Much of the problem here is that new developments are all low density, we have high density but it’s business facing or was full since it was built, anything built from the 90s onward was low density.
We need new zoning policies.
The only civilian housing allowed to be built in most areas is single family, low density housing which manufactures scarcity.
There’s also the requirement for driveways and huge front lawns that ensure car dependency further raising the effective cost of living.
We don’t need skyscrapers but we do need something more dense than the traditional single family homes as the cost to maintain our cities and to live as individuals balloon to unforeseen levels.
We’ve taken a lot from Americans and lessons about how to run a city should never be one of them.
We should build more two or three story walk ups like Montreal has in the older neighborhoods. Places like the Plateau or St. Henri are great to live in.
Agreed, I love walking through old Montreal and Quebec City. Old cities (mostly The ones that predate the popularization of the car) feel so much more alive than other cities mostly due to their people first design and interesting architecture
I think it’s happening: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-legislation-promises-small-scale-multi-unit-housing-in-b-c-1.7015611
Vancouver is a sea of high rises. Density isn’t the problem.
I can’t speak to BC as I’m from NL and have only spent time in here, Ontario and Quebec.
Much of the problem here is that new developments are all low density, we have high density but it’s business facing or was full since it was built, anything built from the 90s onward was low density.