Transit-oriented development spreads out growth into little artificial islands, very often reinforcing inequalities
Canadian cities have a strange shape. Toronto , Mississauga , Surrey – they all feature tiny spikes of high-rises amid vast plains of low buildings.
But in reality it’s a compromise. True transit-oriented development would spread new residents around the existing cores of our cities that have the best transit and the most amenities and are pleasant places to live car-free. They each have thousands of houses that are ripe for redevelopment. Another is at Danforth and Pape, in the Riverdale area. This is a wealthy neighbourhood of mostly single-family houses, with half the density of Thorncliffe Park. Its population has declined sharply since the 1970s. Yet it is a 15-minute bike ride to downtown Toronto. It’s full of every imaginable public and private amenity. And it already has a subway. The Bloor-Danforth line came through in 1966. Now the area will be the meeting point for two transit lines.
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