Five Dense “Missing Middle” Neighbourhoods in Montreal

Do you prefer living in a detached home or a condo/apartment tower? That’s how most of us in North America think about housing options, but as it turns out, there are lots of intermediate options that could be built. It’s called the “missing middle“ and it can balance advantages of higher and lower density living. Montreal, as an older city in North America with different architectural influences, is an excellent example of a city that retains this “missing middle“ housing and in fact actively builds more of it. In this video we profile five different missing middle neighbourhoods in Montreal to see how to achieve density on a low-rise scale. Support our work/watch more: Patreon: Urbanism playlist: Subscribe for more videos: Resources: Les escaliers de Montréal vs towers of Toronto () A catalog of density, Québec/Canada version () Montreal: A Rich Tradition in Medium Density Housing () Data: The density values in this video come from the 2016 census. The neighbourhood values come from visually analyzing the density of dissemination blocks (DBs) using , while other analysis was done on dissemination areas (DAs) using census data accessed through the ’cancensus’ package in R. #montreal #urbanism #missingmiddle