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Originally Posted by adam-machiavelli
Much of London works like this and it still functions. The key is to reduce the commuting distance between home and work. The City took a step in the right direction by adding suburban town centres in its first post-amalgamation land use plan. Now it should focus on filling it with tens of thousands of jobs and adding equal numbers of new dwellings east of the O-Train tracks, and west (and also north) of the Rideau River.
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The problem is the "suburban town centres" are mostly big box plazas, which hardly encourages any sort of density or jobs (other than retail jobs).
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