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New mom Nicole Kidman has moved into a 4,100 sq ft home in Beverly Hills with baby Sunday Rose and husband Keith Urban. Reuters
SHOWING THE WAY
The attraction of downtown residency the subject of the story, The New Republic magazine recently told readers that if they want to know what’s coming down in American cities they might want to visit Vancouver:
” … If you want to see this sort of thing writ large, you can venture just across the Canadian border to Vancouver, a city roughly the size of Washington, D.C.
”What makes it unusual – indeed, at this point unique in all of North America – is that roughly 20 per cent of its residents live within a couple of square miles of each other in the city’s centre.
”Downtown Vancouver is a forest of slender, green, condo skyscrapers, many of them with three-storey townhouses forming a kind of podium at the base.
”Each morning, there are nearly as many people commuting out of the centre to jobs in the suburbs as there are commuting in. Two public elementary schools have opened in downtown Vancouver in the past few years. A large proportion of the city’s 600,000 residents, especially those with money, want to live downtown.
”No American city looks like Vancouver at the moment. But quite a few are moving in this direction. …”
With thanks to Marcella Munro of the Cressey development company for subscribing to all the right magazines.
NEW HOME FOR NEW MOM
Good things come in threes — at least, for Nicole Kidman. The actress has a new baby girl, a starring role in the big-screen version of Broadway’s smash hit Nine, and now a cool new place in Beverly Hills.
Kidman has reportedly already taken occupancy of her house with her spouse, country music star Keith Urban. The 43-year-old house, said to have sold for close to its listing price of about $4.8 million, has five bedrooms and about 4,100 square feet. A grassy play area awaits for when baby Sunday Rose is ready to use it, the Los Angeles Times reports.
