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Originally Posted by nova9
What would you have people put in place? I'm not sure how diversity of the citizens will change the look of a single-family dwelling. I'm not sure I understand, please elaborate.
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I was simply referring to the fact that many of the most culturally interesting neighbourhoods in Vancouver are not as aesthetically pleasing or as dense as they could be. The southern stretches of Main St, for example, provide lots of very interesting window shopping and amazing food options. But do Vancouverites from other parts of the city regularly make visits to Main and 52nd, for example? Do tourists? No, because the look of the neighbourhood is kind of bland and suburban. Perhaps it's simply the reality of modern immigration that "bland and suburban" is what people want, but when you compare these areas to "old school" ethnic enclaves, like Chinatown or Commercial drive, they simply don't have the same drawing power (despite being just as interesting behind the surface). I would imagine that flexibility in zoning could change this dramatically.
I wasn't stating that the "diversity of the citizens will change the look of a single-family dwelling", I was simply lamenting the fact that so much of the city was allowed to be filled with bland, stucco, single family houses. In my ideal world these would be replaced with rowhouses and apartment buildings. Now that the Canada Line has been built, this seems like an especially urgent issue. When you compare the changes that have happened in Burnaby and Richmond along skytrain lines, they are miles ahead of Vancouver. We often forget that the "city" is not just downtown.