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Originally Posted by osirisboy
Why can’t cities just build dense single family walkable neighbourhoods, like kits, strathcona? They don’t. They build car centric shit holes. Everywhere in North America is like this. It’s ridiculous
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Vancouver does kind of do this with new developments (e.g in Clayton, or Albion, or Osprey Village or northern Coast Meridian road on Burke Mountain), but there are usually a few things lacking, the biggest of which is typically walkable commercial buildings.
Also, many of the newer dense residential neighbourhoods lack scale in that you can't go far before you hit an older lower density cul-de-sac filled neighbourhood, or a freeway or a railway or a creek/river or a mountain or the ALR or a reserve or *something*. This makes it hard to support good grid-like transit for these neighbourhoods the way you get it in Vancouver. Finally, these newer areas are typically adjacent to the really bad car centric sprawl that we built in the previous decades, which drags them down towards that car-centric level.
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