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Originally Posted by NetMapel
Sure, I understand tall buildings can seem unwieldy. Even more so when it’s stuck in the sea of single family houses. How else are you going to house people without building more homes? The reasons we have this phenomenon of tall buildings in the sea of single family houses is precisely because these people BLOCK DEVELOPMENTS like NIMBYs. Would I prefer more low rises spread more evenly if it avoids these tall buildings? Sure! But y’all block that and won’t accept it. So here we are and when you live so close to a desirable and walkable skytrain station, I have news for you…expect and accept density.
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I know this wasn't your point and I'm off topic, but I want to counter this idea that tall buildings are worse than low rises. Low rises here are made of wood and you still have to deal with suburbia hell even if sfh owners accepted urbanization on mass. North American cities are unnecessarily widespread. Let's say we don't build as many tall towers and instead move towards more low rises. That just means more families stuck in the middle of nowhere with little to no resources. Cars will still be king.
The only hope we have is more of these master developments like Brentwood, Lougheed/Burquitlam etc. A low rise in Downtown Vancouver is MUCH different than a low rise in North Vancouver for example.
But one of the biggest issues that is less talked about is wood construction. I will never EVER live in a wood building again. It's night and day. I've lived in two different wood buildings and two different concrete high rises. It's night and day. The peace and comfort in a concrete building in terms of noise is not even comparable.
If it is indeed the case that NIMBYs caused this high rise boom in Metro Vancouver, I tip my hat to them. Thank you NIMBYs b/c for once in your lives you're good for something lol
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