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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
There is no reason on earth that we need to keep building those houses on loops and lollipops in "communities" that have housing coarsely-grain segregated from all other land uses.
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I think you are being a bit unfair to current suburb design practices... look at River Mist in Barrhaven, or Lakeridge Drive in Orleans. These are not loops and lollipops. They could still use some work integrating commercial uses more tightly with the residential, but overall urban form is an improvement over the 90s and early 2000s.
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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
There is absolutely no reason for us to freeze land-uses in time in newly-built areas as we've been doing since the 1950s.
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Freezing land use is still an issue... but some 1950s neighbourhoods have been seeing redevelopment in recent years... honestly it is usually the low income neighbourhoods (Carlington comes to mind) less likely to resist change.
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