Vancouver's missing middle

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Vancouver's missing middle Beaudreau, James Alfred

Abstract

Vancouver, British Columbia is experiencing rapid growth. The city currently faces difficult questions about how it will grow, and how to ensure this growth is sustainable. Some kind of intensification of residential land uses will undoubtedly need to be part of the strategy for increasing the supply of housing in the city, but questions remain about how this intensification should be carried out. This report compares the built form of Vancouver's low-density, single-family communities to older and more established neighbourhoods in cities in both North America and Europe. The purpose of this exercise is to understand how the built form of the city, such as the street patterns and types of buildings, affect the level of density. This report finds that there is a significant amount of land in Vancouver that could be redeveloped to meet future housing needs.

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Title	Vancouver's missing middle
Alternate Title	Comparing urban forms to inform residential building typologies for Vancouver
Creator	Beaudreau, James Alfred
Date Issued	2014-11
Description	Vancouver, British Columbia is experiencing rapid growth. The city currently faces difficult questions about how it will grow, and how to ensure this growth is sustainable. Some kind of intensification of residential land uses will undoubtedly need to be part of the strategy for increasing the supply of housing in the city, but questions remain about how this intensification should be carried out. This report compares the built form of Vancouver's low-density, single-family communities to older and more established neighbourhoods in cities in both North America and Europe. The purpose of this exercise is to understand how the built form of the city, such as the street patterns and types of buildings, affect the level of density. This report finds that there is a significant amount of land in Vancouver that could be redeveloped to meet future housing needs.
Genre	Graduating Project
Type	Text
Language	eng
Series	University of British Columbia. SCARP Graduating Projects
Date Available	2015-03-02
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
DOI	10.14288/1.0075853
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52309
Affiliation	Applied Science, Faculty of; Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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