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Originally Posted by Crawford
y and strict limits on SFH. So when the region grows, it leads to highrise, or at least multifamily, growth. Most NA cities have no such restrictions, so the relationship between growth and highrises is weak at best.
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^ This.
I'm not going to sit there and try to downplay what's happening in Toronto, but I will have to say that we need to keep one perspective:
American and Canadian cities are definitely playing by different rules. Hell, American cities are probably playing by different rules than any other country in the developed world.
Even today, allocation of resources, zoning, planning, transportation, land-use policies, etc etc in the US is SO CAR-CENTRIC and so in favor of building SFH style subdivisions in the periphery that highrise construction in transit-served sites in America is a
bigger accomplishment than it is in Canada.
So 50 highrises in the core of an American cities might as well be equivalent to 200 highrises in Canada, and perhaps 400 highrises in an Asian city...