Making better use of the balcony

As apartments become increasingly smaller, it is important to make the best possible use of every square foot of space. However, anyone looking down from a drone flying above Metro Vancouver will observe a significant portion of many apartments is often completely wasted. I refer, of course, to the balcony.
Derived from the Italian ‘balcone’, meaning scaffold, the earliest balconies date back to ancient Greece when they addressed purely functional needs such as increasing air circula