I mean that's most cities, right? Except with Vancouver I see densely gridded urban neighborhoods, and other North American cities aren't usually so lucky to have that kind of infrastructure.
Vancouver has an urbanist trend named after it (Vancouver-ism) for creating dense, walkable, mixed use areas with a particular form of tower development, but as you can see from the meme, it only applies to the downtown core while majority of the Vancouver metro area is still zoned for SFH
Minneapolis is famous for its skyways that allow pedestrians to go from building to building without having to go outside... and that are restricted to the 1 sq. mi. downtown area
oh yeah it's not like there's anything going on in there, mostly (now nearly empty) retail space. but they're cool structures and i want more density and it's insane to me how most of residential housing is duplexes and single family buildings. i would also like an end to private property tbh
In my dreams MPRB takes control of the skyways and keeps them open past business hours. Add some public restrooms and maybe even some rec areas like a basketball court.
Having just moved from there to a classic suburban sprawl hellhole with a once-an-hour-if-youre-lucky bus system I have to say this meme really makes Vancouver look like a less transit/car-free friendly city than it is (although the new city government is doing their best to walk back every bike and transit development of the last five years to appeal to the wealthy people who drive downtown once a month that voted for them). But now I'm paying significantly less rent for a three-bedroom house with a yard and a garage so I guess transit isn't everything when it comes with the highest housing costs on the west coast behind SF...
It's interesting because just out of the frame of this picture are the suburbs that consist of high rise development on top of multiple transit stations. Not too say that anyone can afford to live in those, nor that the pace of building them is anywhere near as fast as it needs to be (pretty quick though, by NA standards), but it's in the right direction.
I mean that's most cities, right? Except with Vancouver I see densely gridded urban neighborhoods, and other North American cities aren't usually so lucky to have that kind of infrastructure.
Vancouver has an urbanist trend named after it (Vancouver-ism) for creating dense, walkable, mixed use areas with a particular form of tower development, but as you can see from the meme, it only applies to the downtown core while majority of the Vancouver metro area is still zoned for SFH
Minneapolis is famous for its skyways that allow pedestrians to go from building to building without having to go outside... and that are restricted to the 1 sq. mi. downtown area
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oh yeah it's not like there's anything going on in there, mostly (now nearly empty) retail space. but they're cool structures and i want more density and it's insane to me how most of residential housing is duplexes and single family buildings. i would also like an end to private property tbh
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In my dreams MPRB takes control of the skyways and keeps them open past business hours. Add some public restrooms and maybe even some rec areas like a basketball court.
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Shanghai, famous for having the most utilized transit systems in the world, is surrounded by massive tower blocks isolated by 6 lane highways.
Having just moved from there to a classic suburban sprawl hellhole with a once-an-hour-if-youre-lucky bus system I have to say this meme really makes Vancouver look like a less transit/car-free friendly city than it is (although the new city government is doing their best to walk back every bike and transit development of the last five years to appeal to the wealthy people who drive downtown once a month that voted for them). But now I'm paying significantly less rent for a three-bedroom house with a yard and a garage so I guess transit isn't everything when it comes with the highest housing costs on the west coast behind SF...
Ah I see. I just figured Vancouver had already done a lot of upzoning, but it looks like definitely not. Yikes.
It's interesting because just out of the frame of this picture are the suburbs that consist of high rise development on top of multiple transit stations. Not too say that anyone can afford to live in those, nor that the pace of building them is anywhere near as fast as it needs to be (pretty quick though, by NA standards), but it's in the right direction.