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Originally Posted by Razor
Did Canada learn from America's downtown abandonment?. It just seems to me that our cities are following or have followed similar paths with flight to the suburbs and exurbs where the SFH;s, the giant outlet centres and cookie cutter box stores are located.Our version of flight just seems to be more tempered down and we don't have the same crime rate in our cores, nor pure "no go" zones..Are we simply just decades behind them with U.S style blighted Downtown areas?.I hope not..I hope we learned from watching what they went through with lots of their cities..There are different dynamics to each country causing or preventing I suppose.
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It seems you’ve not noticed the apartment towers going up in the cores of cities across the country.