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I think it's more about wanting a steep but not excessively tall roof on 2 storey buildings with relatively large floor plates. Although maybe height limits are also a factor for the biggest of the mansions.

Well Oakville might not get as much snow as other parts of the GTA but it still gets wintertime freeze thaw cycles and a fair bit of rain. And yeah, that's the reason why my parents are reluctant to make major investments into the house. They renovated the kitchen and bathrooms 15 years ago...

I'm guessing the houses that have slope sections of their roofs leading down to the walls but still have a flat top would still potentially have issues? Most of the "neotraditional" custom homes in Oakville are like this (although you don't really realize unless you look at aerials).

Yeah, I was just curious about specific things you might have to watch out for that could go bad for homes not built properly. For example my parents house, which is 60 years old, is probably going to have to have the eave soffits replaced in a decade since they're starting to rot. The basement...

There's a few styles that have been built in large quantities here. In the 00s, neo-traditional designs were most population, and they continue being built in decent numbers even today. Around 10 years ago, you started to get a lot of what I believe is referred to as "Nantucket style" homes...

I'm back to living with my parents in Oakville, so I thought I'd take some pictures of the new custom homes that have been built here over the past two decades. Some of them are kinda tacky/poorly designed, but I think there's some pretty good ones too.

What do you think will be the most likely points of failure for the ones that don't last very long (ie 50 years)?

If you're able to do pedestrian friendly suburban development, then by all means. I suspect that the amount of commercial space in that neighbourhood is significantly more than what the residential population can support though (just based on the amount of land dedicated to each use and the...

New York City built about 50% more buildings over 150m in the 2010s decade. However, the number under construction in Toronto is currently the same, and an increasingly high percentage of Toronto's new buildings proposed/UC are over 150m, so I think Toronto will transition from keeping up in the...

I think the Cotes-Des-Neiges area of Montreal has some good examples of "missing middle" type housing that would fit into Toronto neighbourhoods. Like there's these 2 storey 4-plexes that would fit into the kinds of neighbourhoods that already see a lot of teardown activity like Central...

Toronto might not be as big as Tokyo, but among developed world cities that are as big as Toronto will be in a few decades (10-12m people), they pretty much all spread out their office supply and transit access beyond a single a point, whereas Toronto is still pretty downtown/Union Station...

There's many interesting subtopics that we can have interesting discussions over regarding the "outside downtown" development, and it's important to think about it, because Downtown Toronto only has so much room to accommodate the GTHA's growth, especially the residential component. If we...

Is it though? Because greenhouse gases weren't the main driver of climate in much of the past, and the amount of carbon dioxide that can remain dissolved in the water of the oceans decreases with rising temperature. So other factors such as location of continents (polar continents facilitates...

Honestly, sea level rise isn't the biggest concern related to climate change in my opinion. In a few special cases, it might be, like with Miami/South Florida, much of the city is less than a meter above sea level, so those areas would be at risk, and even if they can build barriers against...

Their flooding maps don't match up to the elevation maps I have though. They say sea levels will rise 38cm and then show a map of the whole Delamarva peninsula being flooded, but on this map, even a 4m rise (10x what they say will happen by 2100), only about 20% of that peninsula will be under...

I lived in Thunder Bay for the past few years and coming back from that, Toronto definitely feels like it has four seasons. T-Bay has first frost in mid-late September, lasting snow cover in late October/early November. The snow only finishes melting in mid-late April in the city, with patches...

Regarding why it's higher in suburbs/exurbs, even the less immigrant dominated ones like Barrie and Oshawa... probably that's because that's where the parents live and where there's space. Scarborough, Etobicoke, North York... those are more likely to have older homeowners whose kids are in...

Did they even use an architect? I hope the quality of the architecture of missing middle projects will improve over time as the collective abilities of the small developers improve, this looks very amateurish. The quality of custom homes in my parents neighbourhood in SE Oakville wasn't the...

South Etobicoke, Port Credit and Lakeview seem to allow it which has led to quite a lot of redevelopment there. https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.5438306,-79.598276,3a,75y,32.95h,98.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sRheKmUUXhZktr9PTcl-WEw!2e0!5s20090501T000000!7i13312!8i6656...