Naama Blonder’s team found 273 square kilometres of land available for new homes, not including parks and open space
Naama Blonder, co-founder of Smart Density, a firm that combines architecture, urban planning and urban design to try to find a realistic ways to grow cities and provide affordable housing.Is Toronto maxed-out? Decidedly not, says architect and urban planner Naama Blonder. The city has space for 7.6-million new homes, which could house 12-million more residents, according to a new study by her firm.
Ms. Blonder stresses that the study is not a blueprint for change: she is not recommending the wholesale bulldozing of Toronto’s single-family homes. But she says the study does show that the city is far from at capacity. The Toronto city plan currently directs almost all intensification to areas classified as “mixed-use and apartment neighbourhoods” which accounts for just 8.5 per cent of the city., Ms. Blonder’s team found 273 square kilometres of land available for new homes, not including parks and open space.
The area around Glencairn subway station is an example of a neighbourhood that could host many more homes, she says. Close to numerous transit lines but with a built environment dominated by single-family homes, the neighbourhood is an inefficient use of land. Bloor-Danforth, stretching from downtown Toronto to the fringes of Scarborough and Sheppard-Yonge in the north end of the city are other examples of areas with an overabundance of single-family homes clinging to a major subway line.
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