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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Yup. Huge land mass, low population density, no scarcity of property available... as much as I love densely populated urban areas, the conditions that necessitated the model of Tokyo and Seoul don’t exist for anywhere in Canada to be what Peter is referring to. Vancouver doesn’t even scratch the surface.
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What are you talking about? We are one of the most urbanized countries in the world. 82% of Canadians live in cities, compared to 91% of Japanese and only 81% of South Koreans.
What's more, the vast majority of Canadians live in six cities where property is extremely scarce... You're telling me we shouldn't actively be densifying the Lower Mainland or the GTA?
The fact that we don't densify more is bad policy choices. For god's sake, over 50% of Vancouver is zoned only for single-family homes. It's insane.