What is the differences between urbanized communities vs a stand alone highrise condo? A highrise is a gated community. If you want families to come downtown, y.ou want a safe environment for kids to play outside. I'm not refering to fences and gates wrapping around a paradigm. Im refering to building an entire block where the podium would be constructed to wrap around the entire block while the outside features for children etc are situated in the hollow centre creating a gated form ( think of a rectangle donut). The podiums can still be designed to look like an urban core while towers for families, retirees or other needs can go on top. Take advantage of podium roof tops for out door gymnasium, basketball court, tennis court or community garden etc. Understabdably, we dont have a single developer locally that can or willingly afford the tackling of an entire block, but, collectively, developers can invest that matters together... Tackling one block at a time, each taking turns to building for respective audiences. Take the lot north of Roger's as a fine example for the perfect experimental.
