Canadian Skyline Thread III

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by BlackDog204

Well Calgary was growing at an insane pace, until the oil price crash in 2014 made the city have one of the highest office vacancy rates in North America. I can't imagine the COVID pandemic a few years later helped.

But the high rises in other cities aren't office. They're residential. I guess it's just the difference between major TOD vs sprawl.

[WhipperSnapper]

Major TOD vs Sprawl or ...

warehousing people vs building human scaled walkable communities. You may want to check out some of those Calgary developments vs say Gillmore Place

The standard bearer from TOD to urbanity still revolves around denser and taller despite all the physical failures one can visit or read about

[theman23]

Most of the transit oriented development in Seattle is 4 to 5 storey apartments along the link LRT. We like to build nodes of bajillion story towers containing unlivable shoeboxes around transit centres, interspersed with vast swaths of nothing, which is why we score high on these comparisons