The Urban and Up scam: They build the box, we build the rest—and foot the bill forever. Taking an honest look at the hidden public cost of Halifax's high-rise development ideology.
I get your point but not everyone is in the position to invest in Hyrostone-esk type homes/communities. Unfortunately, there is a place for apartment building (& funneling our $$ into the corporate developers. )TheHyrostone neighbourhood is the envy of many of us. I know I get s special feeling ambling through there when I have occasion.
Will you be basing your Musquodoboit development on a Hydrostone type neighbourhood?
www.harbourgarden.ca is definitely drawing from the same well of ideas that inspired the Hydrostone project.
Our goal is to create a strategy of small rental homes, at affordable rents with a path to purchase in the long run for those interested, where, like the Hydrostone, the value is created by the community itself rather than just the square foot market rate of the building.
It's a different model than anything in Nova Scotia today. Is it viable? Can it be done? We'll see!
Reminds me of the brilliant piece decades ago by the funny guy PJ O'Rourke about his trip to the Soviet Union and the horrible architecture, the cheap concrete apartment buildings where from the ship on the river you could see the absence of straight lines, a metaphor for Stalinist central planning .... a kind of anti-travel piece, like Christopher Isherwood in Berlin in the 1930s...
I agree 100%, I was envisioning a similar community being built in the Cogswell exchange district but sadly Council wants 30-40 story high rises there instead. These were not depicted in the video that was made to show what the new district would look like.
I get your point but not everyone is in the position to invest in Hyrostone-esk type homes/communities. Unfortunately, there is a place for apartment building (& funneling our $$ into the corporate developers. )TheHyrostone neighbourhood is the envy of many of us. I know I get s special feeling ambling through there when I have occasion.
Will you be basing your Musquodoboit development on a Hydrostone type neighbourhood?
I love it. Really hope to see it come to fruition
www.harbourgarden.ca is definitely drawing from the same well of ideas that inspired the Hydrostone project.
Our goal is to create a strategy of small rental homes, at affordable rents with a path to purchase in the long run for those interested, where, like the Hydrostone, the value is created by the community itself rather than just the square foot market rate of the building.
It's a different model than anything in Nova Scotia today. Is it viable? Can it be done? We'll see!
Reminds me of the brilliant piece decades ago by the funny guy PJ O'Rourke about his trip to the Soviet Union and the horrible architecture, the cheap concrete apartment buildings where from the ship on the river you could see the absence of straight lines, a metaphor for Stalinist central planning .... a kind of anti-travel piece, like Christopher Isherwood in Berlin in the 1930s...
I agree 100%, I was envisioning a similar community being built in the Cogswell exchange district but sadly Council wants 30-40 story high rises there instead. These were not depicted in the video that was made to show what the new district would look like.