(06-01-2021, 10:50 PM)cherrypark Wrote: I would love to see more quality building in the low-rise to mid-rise realm in the city but sadly they don't seem to get the same attention. There are some great examples around, but also a lot of not so great ones. We have so much space to fill with even a small amount of height before a genuine need to go way up.
I think it's fine we're utilizing height already. Most of the tall buildings are centered right downtown/uptown where you generally want the most density so you can maximize potential housing units/office space now rather than later on. Or, alternatively, just clustered around transit nodes which is thankfully the plan the region has around each LRT station. This is good for the urban landscape so they're clustered together, because few people would want a 30 floor condo next to their single family home. Low and mid rise is great as well and we definitely need more of it, but I'd prefer to see it on the outer peripheries of the cores and even scattered throughout the rest of the city.
Basically...your quintessential city: place the tallest buildings clustered in a downtown or similar section of the city where there is active transit (such as North York area, Midtown Toronto etc) with mid rise buildings surrounding that and low rise even further out (though low rise is such a waste). In the end, we need a serious push to have mid rise buildings approved. There are some developers out there doing this - such as Vive Developments - but there could be so much more.