Housing Multitudes, an exhibition at the University of Toronto, asks a good question: Can we find a better way to build?
Imagine a metropolis that stretches out to the horizon. It spills across municipal borders and leaps river valleys. Its form is consistent: A sea of houses, punctuated by skyscrapers in tight clusters and in long, skinny corridors.
The curators, Daniels professors Michael Piper and Richard Sommer, present an incisive analysis of what’s happening across the “So often, the understanding of what the region can be is based on an understanding of downtown Toronto,” he explained. “We’ve chosen to take a little bit of downtown and repeat it on a few sites.” “But that means 70 to 80 per cent of our land area is reserved for houses, and it’s off-limits to change. Does that really make sense?”
But that vision didn’t account for the ways houses and households might change. “When you scratch under the surface” of suburban house neighbourhoods, Mr. Piper says, “there’s a whole world of occupation that is much more dense than we imagine. But those people don’t want to be vocal, because their ways of living – like rooming houses – are often illegal.”
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