Re:Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city...
by throw0101a on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:28PM
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> The elephant in the room is the assumption that _everyone wants to be stacked on top of each other_.
You can have density that supports public transit and walkable retail without having to build like HK or Manhattan. This is in the middle of a Toronto neighbourhood that was build in the 1910s (use street view to poke around):
Currently these houses/land are very expensive because living 'downtown' is fashionable again, but up until the 1990s they were reasonably priced because... who would want to live downtown when you could live in the suburbs?
Some smaller sized houses on the next street over:
You can have density that supports public transit and walkable retail without having to build like HK or Manhattan. This is in the middle of a Toronto neighbourhood that was build in the 1910s (use street view to poke around):
* https://www.google.com/maps/place/150+Westminster+Ave,+Toron...
Currently these houses/land are very expensive because living 'downtown' is fashionable again, but up until the 1990s they were reasonably priced because... who would want to live downtown when you could live in the suburbs?
Some smaller sized houses on the next street over:
* https://www.google.com/maps/place/50+Geoffrey+St,+Toronto,+O...
Most have lane way garages. They're generally 3-4 bedrooms.
Everyone can have a front yard, everyone can have a backyard (with an accessible garage), and no one is really "stacked" on each other.