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It's better than neighbourhoods that are 'pleasantly and boringly unoffensive,' says politically connected house designer Bryn Davidson
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Bryn Davidson is a politically progressive house designer, builder and climate-crisis activist who has done far more than most to change Vancouver’s neighbourhoods.
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A transplant from California, Davidson has been influential in pressing Vancouver city councillors and other politicians and planners to increase population density through laneway houses, duplexes, fourplexes, sixplexes, and four-to-eight-storey apartment buildings on side streets.
Many residents are shocked by the outsized, blocky houses cropping up across Vancouver and other B.C. cities. With a reputation as a disrupter, however, Davidson makes no apology for citizens upset at the thousands of fourplex and sixplex houses that will be........