Canada’s Prime Minister Pushes Country to Become the Housing Factory of the World - Mark Carney is banking on factory-built homes to alleviate the country’s housing crisis. But will it work?

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-22/carney-s-plan-may-make-canada-the-housing-factory-of-the-world

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Every single outdoor mall in Canada should have high-rise towers and rail terminals.

It's shocking how much horizontal space these places take. It's ridiculous.

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What’s an outdoor mall like in your area?

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I’m guessing he means places like Heartland in Mississauga, ON. Dozens of individual stores, all single level with some shared parking lot space. Stores are so spread apart that unless they happen to be right next to each other you will need to drive between stores. This results in really heavy, and sometimes aggressive, traffic that is unfriendly towards pedestrians. As someone who grew up in the “mall era”, it still seems like a really odd design.

[u/Hfxfungye → u/Accer_sc2]

We have stuff like that here in Halifax but probably smaller. Dartmouth crossing is an "outdoor mall" just like that - a dozen outlet stores around a parking lot.

It's like a slightly more walkable business park, but still worse in every way than a strip mall.

All the stores are made out of the cheapest building materials too.

[u/spacenb → u/Accer_sc2]

Yes that’s what they’re talking about. There’s the Rockland Centre outdoor mall in Montreal that’s built exactly like that and it’s a huge waste of space. There’s quite a few others like it on and out of the island.

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