A major new greenfield project 20 miles from Toronto intends to create a European-style town centre that mixes uses and de-emphasizes cars.
"Downtown Markham...is definitely looking like the next big thing in suburban development. It's about greenfield communities composed of housing, services, places of employment and parks in easy, close proximity to each other, as opposed to big tracts of housing a car trip away from the nearest milk store.
"[T]he development...look[s] forward to a time when driving automobiles will be a sharply less desirable way to get around. A fine pedestrian promenade will bisect Downtown Markham, and the heart of it will be a very walkable retail and entertainment district. Throughout its promotional materials, Remington emphasizes the 'European' scale and city-sense it intends: something mid-rise, for instance, with a strong street wall, a pervasive friendliness toward pedestrian traffic and an increased presence for mass transit."
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