The urbanity

North America has a housing affordability crisis and the video below explains how many older cities like Chicago built from the ground up and allowed for more dense neighborhoods to sprout which accommodated a diverse and growing population.

What we have done post war is to allow urban sprawl to increase unchecked making us slaves to cars and in many cases creating bedroom communities where access to services was via malls which are now largely dying thanks to online shopping.

I live in a pre-war dense neighborhood which mixes commerce with housing which today is unfortunately illegal to build in Canada. We need to go back to the drawing board and start over particularly with the rapidly changing nature of work and family structures....