{"id":29742,"date":"2017-04-04T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=29742"},"modified":"2017-04-02T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T17:42:42","slug":"video-missing-middle-vancouvers-housing-density-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2017\/04\/04\/video-missing-middle-vancouvers-housing-density-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: The \u201cMissing Middle\u201d in Vancouver\u2019s Housing Density Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18200 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/02\/video-van_feature-VAN.gif\" alt=\"Video Vancouver\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/36rjxnrukc4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=36rjxnrukc4\">The Tyee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>When you think of high urban density, you might think of big land assembly projects that end up in blockbusting towers. It doesn\u2019t have to be that way. There\u2019s a \u201cmissing middle\u201d between towers and single-family homes.<\/p>\n<p>Urban design experts Patrick Condon and Scot Hein tour some Vancouver projects to show that density can also come at a comfortable scale, whether it\u2019s by repurposing a car repair shop or cloning a heritage house.<\/p>\n<p>Edited and photographed by Christopher Cheung. Music by <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Kevin_MacLeod\/\">Kevin MacLeod<\/a> used under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\">CCAL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Tyee: When you think of high urban density, you might think of big land assembly projects that end up in blockbusting towers. It doesn\u2019t have to be that way. There\u2019s a \u201cmissing middle\u201d between towers and single-family homes. Urban design experts Patrick Condon and Scot Hein tour some Vancouver projects to show that<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2017\/04\/04\/video-missing-middle-vancouvers-housing-density-debate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;VIDEO: The \u201cMissing Middle\u201d in Vancouver\u2019s Housing Density Debate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6024,"featured_media":29744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11293,24,11235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-video","category-housing","category-urban-design","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VIDEO: The \u201cMissing Middle\u201d in Vancouver\u2019s Housing Density Debate - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When you think of high urban density, you might think of big land assembly projects that end up in blockbusting towers. 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