04-04-2021, 09:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2021, 09:50 PM by danbrotherston.)
Yeah, the roads are just utterly unnecessary and incredibly wasteful.
But yeah, it's the buildings mostly I find interesting, I too like the rooftop patio, although I wonder how well that works in practice, I love a good deck, but it might be a bit weird to have to go up to the roof to get there (FWIW the deck on the front of these is kind of interesting: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4540224,-...384!8i8192).
As for why they do laneways AND excessively wide residential streets....I have no other answer than our insane car culture. It's stupid, because the idea of a laneway behind is appealing for it's ability to REMOVE cars from the street in front of my home.
But yeah, it's the buildings mostly I find interesting, I too like the rooftop patio, although I wonder how well that works in practice, I love a good deck, but it might be a bit weird to have to go up to the roof to get there (FWIW the deck on the front of these is kind of interesting: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4540224,-...384!8i8192).
As for why they do laneways AND excessively wide residential streets....I have no other answer than our insane car culture. It's stupid, because the idea of a laneway behind is appealing for it's ability to REMOVE cars from the street in front of my home.