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How many are willing to give up a detached house for it though?

How many are willing to deal with shortsighted neighbours who refuse to fix their condo building?

I’m someone who nominally wants walkable neighbourhoods, but as soon as it requires compromising those two, I’m out.

No need to give up single family homes at all. Just make sure every suburb has a dense multi use zoned core with shops and apartments above the shops. Then make that core easy to reach from all across the suburb by walking/cycling/bus/rail (yes that will take away some of the space allocated to cars). Then as a bonus, connect those cores to each other with rail. This is essentially how Dutch suburbs work.

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