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Originally Posted by evanmack
The area is developing. How else does a city grow? By not building tall buildings?
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Yes. There are lots of huge, dense, urban cities without tall buildings. I happen to think that building these "tower in a park" developments in a suburban environment prevents it from ever developing a real urban fabric.
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Originally Posted by isaidso
I believe Mississauga's master plan calls for creating a pedestrian friendly, mixed use, denser urban core. It will take a couple decades to get there, but buildings like Absolute are a great start.
Would you prefer they built a 10 storey tower and then got in their car?
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The best would be to build housing of whatever height (maybe 3-4 stories, maybe 5-6 stories, or maybe higher) that went right up to the sidewalk, without a podium base or parking underneath or in a lot surrounding the building. I realize the area is still suburban and so there would need to be a parking garage nearby. On the main commercial streets, as opposed to side streets, there should be retail on the ground floor of these residential buildings for shops, restaurants, etc. It would take some time to develop but eventually people wouldn't need their cars for most of their daily activities.
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Originally Posted by J. Will
People want to live up high primarily for the view. It has nothing to do with walkability or urbanity. That's a separate issue.
There are both lowrise residences and highrise residences in walkable areas. There are both lowrise residences and highrise residences in auto-oriented areas.
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This is the real answer. It's a nice looking building but it's in a very suburban area. It's not really a step toward anything and it's perfect evidence of why the population density statistics that people on this forum like to trot out from time to time are completely and utterly meaningless in relation to "urbanity".
Sorry, made an offhand comment, didn't mean to start a long debate.