12-04-2020, 09:36 PM
(12-03-2020, 05:53 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: High density is achievable without highrises, as most of Europe shows, and people here continually praise European cities for their successful planning and design. I fear the lack of high-density midrise neighbourhoods will push people who reject highrise living away to suburbia (this is how I feel, personally). Of course there are cities in the world where the only choice is up, like Tokyo (which is also a city of extremely high quality), but KW could densify insane amounts within our footprint without a single highrise (which isn't to say we shouldn't have any for those who want them).
Your last quote really sums it up. It's not that the European cities don't have high-rise residential buildings: they do. But, more than that, they generally have a large stock of mid-rise/medium-density housing, whereas we have endless suburbs that enforce the limitation to single-family housing.