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Originally Posted by isaidso
Both US and Canadian metros follow the same pattern; a dense downtown surrounded by miles of auto centric, low density suburbia. The best route forward for US cities is to mirror what Canadian cities started doing around 20-25 years ago.
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You mean increase immigration? Immigration would fix this suburb's primary ills.
Canada has no Doltons largely because of massive immigration (and no black-white legacy issues).
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Originally Posted by isaidso
To resuscitate these suburbs they need to be connected to the amenities of a downtown and the jobs that exist there. Commuting into these downtowns has become a nightmare and the density is too low to support rail. Canadian metros chose the only option available: build nodes (mini downtowns) throughout the metro. That means selecting areas in these low density suburbs that will be built/re-built as high density nodes with a subway station underneath.
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Ridiculous. Dolton is an older Chicago-area suburb and has frequent rail nearby. Chicagoland has like 10x as many rail lines and suburban downtowns as in the largest Canadian cities.
And Dolton is already pretty dense/walkable (certainly moreso than, say, Mississauga or North York), the problem is that it absolutely sucks.
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Originally Posted by isaidso
These clusters contain condos towers, office towers, retail, entertainment, etc.
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The last thing Dolton needs is giant condo towers and more retail, as if property demand and prices aren't quite weak enough. Dolton needs people, not condo boxes (unless those condo boxes come with waves of Chinese investors, as in Canada).