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What is the global standard these days? I spent three weeks in Europe travelling different cities and none of the apartment buildings I saw u/c looked any better tbh. The newer low rise buildings were the same as what I’m seeing here.

Love this proposal.

Nice to see a 35 storey tower proposed instead of the 9 storey one. It’s not that I love high rise towers to making up our urban environment, but this is the area where high rise towers work well.

I don’t disagree that people who walk or cycle to work are happier and healthier. Those studies are kind of pointless though, especially for North American cities. There’s no study that shows the effects if the 90% of the people who drive or take transit to work, suddenly had to walk or cycle...

This looks good. It’s solid and definitely not offensive.

I’m okay with low to mid-rise at University District, but I really hope the University builds something in the range of 6-12 storeys to replace the student housing they bulldozed recently. Around Brentwood or Banff Trail, 30 floors for sure.

I’m in the same mindset, I can’t decide if I want them to win or not. Part of me wants to see them crash to the bottom for the next couple years and get some high draft pics, but the other part of me wouldn’t mind seeing him make the playoffs. What I don’t want is seeing them miss the playoffs...

Fair enough, I get where you’re coming from. It is unfortunate that we have a car centric Society for sure. There are times when I enjoy driving because it makes my life easier or gives me freedom to do certain things, but at the same time, it would be great to be less reliant on it. A difficult...

Your argument is more about cars in general, and is very generalized. There's a big difference between that and whether to maintain an already existing road like 11th street, and is a whole other conversation. - Cars are major contributor of climate change. -True, cars of today are contributors...

It would be more expensive to add cars, just a matter of how much more expensive. It should also be cheaper than 4th street as there would only be one vehicle lane each way. At some point I imagine there will be costs that can be used for comparisons.

If we’re going to go through the cost of building an underpass we might as well add vehicle traffic to the list. The cost of any kind of underpass is going to be there either way. Why spend millions on an underpass to accommodate pedestrians and cyclists only? I know the narrative is that cars...

Those places are interesting places to visit, not to live, and they aren’t opting not to drive cars, it’s because they don’t have a choice. I’d love to live in many of those cities in the list for 6 months or a year, but you couldn’t pay me to live in those places permanently. It’s one of the...

Hyperbole aside, before cars came along people were very limited in their mobility. You could make an argument about cars causing climate change, but you can’t make an argument that having cars has made people’s lives worse, because it hasn’t. Literally nobody would ever want to go back to the...

I get your point about needing to better accommodate pedestrians and cyclists, and I agree, 100%. I really do, but hyperbole about cars destroying everybody’s lives and the world isn’t the way to go. People weren’t any happier in the 1800s when they didn’t have cars. Yes, cars are a big part of...

I don’t think anyone is suggesting we put children’s safety at risk by having cars use 11th street. Cars have been using 11th St. for decades, all we are doing is continuing that while adding better support for pedestrians and cyclists at the same time. I know we all would love to see a society...

This is the second proposal to change recently from apartment style to row homes. Is it because if costs due to u/g parking? I would have thought the other style would be more efficient cost wise.

I gotta say, I am loving the Oilers season so far. I know it’s early, and they’ll probably bounce back, but to see them at third from the bottom in the league as nice. Lol

Welcome to the forum @Albertasaurus. I find Vancouver’s density is interesting. Outside of the downtown core and West Broadway area around False Creek, the density in Vancouver is very much piles of single-family homes with nodes of high-rises scattered in different areas, whereas Montreal‘s...

I wouldn’t call the Vancouver one a well designed convention center. Outside of that tiny patio, there’s little difference from the BMO centre. In many ways, I like the BMO centre better than the Vancouver convention centre. I don’t know why everybody is in a huff about retail at the BMO center...

I don’t care if the numbers from Statscan are delayed a month or two. For me the most interesting part of the numbers is how Calgary compares with the other cities, and which types of dwellings are being built. By the way, great to see Calgary being a solid third for housing starts this year.