Le conseil municipal de Montréal a donné un feu vert tard lundi soir à la transformation de la Place Versailles en nouveau quartier d’environ 5000 logements, incluant des tours de 25 étages.
Exactly. These developments are never walkable spaces and are never well connected with other parts of the city, making traffic worse and people even more car dependent.
Yeah I don’t know why so many comments are just being doomerist about this. Montréal is explicitly doing this to improve urbanism (literally what they say in the article) not just to make a condo.
What it’s probably going to look like: https://cdn.realtor.ca/listing/TS638778055790070000/reb82/highres/3/e12022233_1.jpg
What we should be building: https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/114519452725292215
Exactly. These developments are never walkable spaces and are never well connected with other parts of the city, making traffic worse and people even more car dependent.
Montreal has been building pretty good stuff lately.
Yeah I don’t know why so many comments are just being doomerist about this. Montréal is explicitly doing this to improve urbanism (literally what they say in the article) not just to make a condo.
NIMBYs don’t like either option, which means we always get the worst of the two.