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Originally Posted by GeoNerd
There are no TOD's in Vanier. The posting mentioned west end. However, on the topic of Vanier...Vanier has many amenities including massive employment areas. The case could be made for the creation of great 15 minute neighbourhoods in Vanier.
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15-minute neighbourhoods can be achieved without highrises and building of 30+ storeys. Midrise and missing middle can meet a lot of needs for Vanier, including the buildings being cheaper and faster to build with fewer restrictions and requirements from the City and the Ontario Building Code, and they won't contribute as much creating vertical sprawl.
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Toronto's climate is very similar to Ottawa/Montreal. Due to the lake they have a slightly warmer winter and a delayed spring. Summer is identical. Triple pane windows are increasingly common and provide great insulation. A cheap poorly insulated window frame can be less efficient than a curtain wall. Just because old concrete bunker towers with tiny windows may (or may not) be more energy efficient during certain conditions, that doesn't mean we should not be constructing alternatives. I'm not going to recommend home owners install tiny sliding windows over big bay windows in their homes to try and be more energy efficient. Technology in modern windows allows us to be bold.
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Nice strawman, there. No one said anything about small windows and concrete bunkers being more energy efficient. The choices for doing buildings aren't between small windowed-bunkers or entirely glass towers.
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