kettal
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Does it make you feel like a smart boy when you take statements out of context like that and attempt to prove them wrong? Who are you trying to impress?But according to you, high density has nothing to do with urban.
The fact is, you can find plenty single use land use all over downtown Toronto. Walk down any side street and you will find plenty residential-only land uses.
And if you break it down to a micro-level on a square inch by square inch basis, you will find some some land is only used for a single purpose, like a tree or a newspaper box
In the suburbs, the first step was to define a 4-square-km block as purely residential, or purely retail, or purely an office park. That's the difference. In the pre-suburban days, it was never a problem that there would be a general store or a restaurant on your residential street.
To have lots of mixed uses everywhere would require very high density. Downtown Toronto does have more mixed land uses than the suburbs, but it is only able to support such uses because it has higher density.
High density is required for a mixed use?? Back when Toronto was a sleepy town with less than 100,000 population, almost all developed land was mixed use, and density was certainly not "ultra-high"... the tallest building was 5 storeys tall.
I hope you're embarrassed with yourself, because I'm feeling pretty embarrassed for you right now.
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