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Originally Posted by dleung
It's quite a different thing, if like most of downtown, they're building wall to wall towers in Coquitlam... but no, the 30-40 storey towers out there sit on very large low-density podiums and landscaping...
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Actually, many of the podiums being built in Coquitlam are far more urban than almost anything being built in downtown Vancouver. Unlike a lot of towers in downtown Vancouver (which have quiet townhomes and hedges fronting what should be an urban streetscape), Coquitlam is beginning to create continuous, urban, retail/commercial street walls out of their podiums. From an urban design perspective, I think Coquitlam is currently outdoing Vancouver, which is over-residentializing its downtown.