11-15-2015, 01:43 PM
(11-15-2015, 01:24 PM)chutten Wrote: However, it does not follow that the people who would develop and populate the "sprawling" developments would be more interested in developing or populating higher-density core developments.
True enough, however before there was no choice in town. We simply had no dense areas to speak of. Now we have three well defined high density areas: Northdale, Uptown, Downtown. Think of nice towns and cities in Europe to get a picture of what density done right looks like. Europe has suburbs nonetheless, but the percentage of people living in them is lower than in North America, and most young people and even young families often live in dense areas in downtown. General availability of public parks and other spaces help in this regard. In Europe we lived in a dense area within walking distance of two awesome play yards and one urban forest with a small zoo. Who needs a backyard?