Is ‘missing middle’ financially viable"
Studio North, Gravity Architecture and Part & Parcel won a competition to construct missing middle housing in Edmonton.
Cities across Canada are exploring the missing middle as opportunities to welcome more homes and people in their communities. The term “missing middle” refers to multi-unit housing that falls between single detached homes and tall apartment buildings. It includes row housing, triplexes/fourplexes, courtyard housing and walk-up apartments. These housing forms are considered ?missing? because they have been largely absent from urban streetscapes in Canada, including Winnipeg.
As planners working with the City of Edmonton, we too, are seeking to enable medium-density development in the city?s older neighbourhoods. Edmonton?s official plan, the City Plan, envisions a growth of over one million people by 2040, and will be up for public debate in fall of 2020. The City?s Infill Roadmap, which articulates a series of actions to enable medium-scale infill, is also in effect from 2018 to the end of 2021. What both of these policies and initiatives demonstrate is Edmonton?s interest in increasing housing choices, particularly in the missing middle housing range. But does this development orientation align with industry and consumer demand" Planners and city-builders across the nation have questioned whether households prefer mid-rise housing, and if builders see these housing typologies as more profitable than single-detached or high-rise reside...
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