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Douglas Todd: Vancouver's small apartment blocks don't need to look so unattractive
Small apartment buildings would be better if they respected neighbourhoods, included basements and had adequate on-site parking, say experts
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Does new housing density need to look so unattractive?
Judging by the rhetoric of many housing developers, the road to affordability is paved with larger, taller, blockier housing, which can overwhelm its neighbours.
Small apartment buildings — sometimes called multiplexes — are sparking fiery discussions across Metro Vancouver, Canada and the U.S. as governments of the right, centre and left seize on them as a prime route to “missing-middle housing.”
This month, the New York Times ran a feature on whether it was “neighbourly” for a suburban property owner in Virginia to erect a skinny, three-storey tower-like structure next door to a bungalow, creating a blank wall and shadows.
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