Growing Up: Vertical Communities and Children
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What You'll Learn
- Understand how developments can integrate the needs of children.
- Learn about ways to recommend public realm designs that promote independent mobility.
- Learn how to transfer high-rise design solutions for families into local projects and plans.
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Can families thrive in dense urban environments? How can city centers evolve to places where parents want to raise their children? Families in Toronto, like other rapidly growing cities, are facing the choice of moving to the suburbs and facing long commutes or carving out a lifestyle meets their needs in the city.
The City of Toronto has developed new urban design guidelines called Growing Up — Planning for Children in Vertical Communities. In a city where the average price of a single-family home is unaffordable to most households and 83 percent of new development is in tall buildings, vertical communities are becoming the only choice for families who wish to remain in the city's central neighborhoods.
The Growing Up Guidelines focus on design interventions at the neighborhood, building, and unit scale. The guidelines will be advancing policy, zoning, and urban design solutions to future-proof new housing stock and create vital communities for the city's youngest citizens.
Hear experts from Toronto discuss the emerging issues that are shaping housing in high-growth centers. Experience vertical communities through the eyes of youth in a short film.