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Originally Posted by GenWhy?
It is rather interesting to note the resilience of not planning (aside from the old industrial issues and other maladies) and town / master / suburb planning.
Interesting to note on early Vancouver suburban development pre-war are the formation of the Town and Country Planning Association and the Garden City movement in the U.K. and the training and work done by Thomas Adams (Halifax Explosion rebuild) and our very own Horace Llewellyn Seymour who in a way created Canadian planning and of course Bartholomew in the 20's and the advent of the car. All seeking to escape the chaotic pre-war planning system thus creating what we have now.
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There were reasons why they started the movement. However, the folks after them took an extremist approach to what they started, and hence the problem we have today. Some flexibility would have gone a long way to make Canadian cities much denser and way more sustainable than what we have today.
Luckily Burnaby, Coquitlam and Richmond are some of the more forward-thinking municipalities in the Lower Mainland to allow taller denser buildings to be spread out of their city cores, albeit with the presence of SFH neighbourhoods still in existence. These need time to purge.
Toronto used to be like Vancouver, favouring only high density structures to be built in the core, but around the turn of the millennium, something changed and now it has become the model city in Canada.
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