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Originally Posted by twoNeurons
Towers are not everything, either. You can have high density without them. Look at Tokyo. Very few tall towers, lots of mid-rises. London and Paris are also both densely populated cities with few super tall towers. Towers may have their place, but you can't deny that in a city like Vancouver, with its overcast days, they cast a considerable shadow.
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Streets in Olympic Village are considerably darker than those in, say, Yaletown or Coal Harbour. Vancouver, with its gloomy weather in the winter, needs tall towers that are spaced well to brighten streets.