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By Nathanael Lauster
Vancouver this day is famous as probably the most livable towns on the planet in addition to a world version for sustainability and urbanism. Single-family houses during this urban are “a loss of life breed.” most folk stay within the quite a few low-rise and high-rise city choices in the course of the metropolitan area.
The loss of life and lifetime of the Single-Family House explains how citizens in Vancouver try to make themselves at domestic with no condo. neighborhood sociologist Nathanael Lauster has painstakingly studied the city’s dramatic transformation to scale back sprawl. He tracks the heritage of housing and interviews citizens concerning the cultural value of the home in addition to the city difficulties it as soon as seemed to solve.
Although Vancouver’s outfitted setting is exclusive, Lauster argues that it used to be by no means predestined by means of geography or demography. in its place, regulatory differences enabled town to renovate, construct over, and construct round the apartment. furthermore, he insists, there are classes the following for the remainder of North the United States. we will commence construction our towns in a different way, and with out sacrificing their livability.
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