Comment 102682

By RobF (registered) | Posted June 19, 2014 at 12:50:03 in reply to Comment 102677

Do we disagree? I think that I was clear ... "downtown is distinctive, because of the density of employment".

I also don't dispute that downtown could see office space and employment growth if right investments are made and a regulatory structure exists to steer private investment into it (I would like to see this). LRT is one piece of this.

My point was directed at Jason and his misrepresentation of our current urban structure (the vast majority of Hamiltonians work downtown ... that is clearly not true). Further, to get out of our current political stalemate on congestion, collectively we need to rethink the idea that we still live in urban regions split between "the city" and "the suburbs", especially if they are understood as having a dominant core surrounded by a dependent residential periphery. Urban research is clear that the anatomy of the 21st century urban region is far more complex than that.

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