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Originally Posted by Urbanarchit
15-minute neighbourhoods can be achieved without highrises and building of 30+ storeys. Midrise and missing middle can meet a lot of needs for Vanier, including the buildings being cheaper and faster to build with fewer restrictions and requirements from the City and the Ontario Building Code, and they won't contribute as much creating vertical sprawl.
Nice strawman, there. No one said anything about small windows and concrete bunkers being more energy efficient. The choices for doing buildings aren't between small windowed-bunkers or entirely glass towers.  |
Straw man? You've brought up an argument about Vanier in a conversation about a western TOD. Talk about straw man.
In no way are tall buildings in TOD vertical sprawl. Nor are they in the right context outside of heavily transit connected areas. Missing middle in a TOD would likely be under development. If you value cheap and fast to build buildings with fewer restrictions and requirements over well designed & articulated buildings I don't know what to tell you. Maybe check back
here regularly for new postings.
