Vancouver has never seemed to be interested into looking at European housing plans or transit plans; as a result we have what might appear to be a post WW2 attitude toward housing, when the US was building these great suburbs and people drove miles to work in the city or they took public transit. It was a sort of 'class' system really. We need to look at models in Europe and not the US. Europe is successful because both the rich, working class and the poor all are content to live in 1200 sq. feet. [sometimes less] Here in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland we have allowed monster houses and on small tracts of land. We have forgotten about 'lifestyle'. It is a shame. How do we change this nightmare?