The trouble with transit-oriented development
Canadian cities have a strange shape. Toronto, Mississauga, Surrey – they all feature tiny spikes of high-rises amid vast plains of low buildings.
This pattern of tall and sprawl fundamentally makes no sense. It creates all sorts of challenges for new growth while leaving low-density neighbourhoods to grow richer and emptier. Yet our governments are doubling down on it through a seemingly reasonable idea: transit-oriented development.
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