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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I haven't been to mainland China, but I have visited Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. Riding the metro systems in those countries makes me so jealous/angry that we could have built our cities in Canada to have a similar quality of public transportation but instead made the short-sighted decision to design our urban infrastructure around low-density car-dependent suburbs because we don't want to share spaces with poor people.
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It's too bad there isn't much appreciation of the benefits of density in Canada. Personally, I find suburban cities to feel lonely, isolating, and much less vibrant, but people like their suburbs here and density seems to face a lot of opposition. There are many contributors to quality of life that are hard to have without density though, including really excellent shared public systems like these.
It's also just hard to compete/compare with places that are far ahead in infrastructure development capacity, and the infrastructure development capacity is worlds apart between these places.