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They made much smaller 3/4 bedroom homes before Ww2 and the ascent of the car. Many of them lacked driveways. You can pack a lot of homes like that into a sma
by Pxtl 11y ago
They made much smaller 3/4 bedroom homes before Ww2 and the ascent of the car. Many of them lacked driveways. You can pack a lot of homes like that into a small space and then get good LRT service to a nearby corner. Cities were built for that before - look at old industrial towns like Pittsburgh and Flint. If we can salvage those old industrial cities, there's great opportunity there for transit-oriented living without giving up single-family homes.
I live in Hamilton, which is the Pittsburgh of Canada, and there is great promise here for the "have it all" urban lifestyle.
- Grishnakh 11y agoYou don't even have to give up driveways and garages; it's entirely possible to build townhouses (row houses) with a 1-car garage on the ground floor. I lived in one of those years ago: the "main floor" (as seen from the front) was really the 2nd floor, and the basement floor had a 1-car garage which opened out to the back. It's entirely possible to build lots of these in cities and get a good amount of living space plus room for a car. Just look at the "brownstones" in Manhattan NYC; those things had tons of room in them, but were narrow so you could pack a lot in a given space. They had so much room that these days most of them are split up into 2-4 separate units and rented out.