Downtown Suburbia
 

Well, seeing how we have a smaller city picture thread time to start a suburban skyline picture thread. Cities such as Vancouver and Toronto have large suburban cores that have impressive skylines of their own, but are often overshadowed by the downtown core skylines. I want to see your city's suburban skylines, please post any pictures if you have them.

I will start by moving my posts from the "cities under 500 000" thread to here, and i will add more pictures when the weather improves and i get some time to snap some.

Burnaby (Metrotown) city population 200 000.

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All pictures are my own.
Sorry, i know you have all seen these ones before! But new ones will come. There are also other emerging skylines in Burnaby, such as Brentwood, Lougheed and Edmonds that i will try and take some pictures of as well. Skytrain has been shaping Burnaby's growth well.

North Vancouver, Population 45 000.

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Picture is my own

How about downtown Siberia? As in most USA downtowns after 530pm

Metrotown actually stays pretty busy until about 9 or 10, and there is still a some life even after that, especially on weekends or holidays. For a suburban downtown it is pretty impressive, it is larger than some American city's core downtowns.

^yep. Used to work adjacent to metrotown just half a click away on kingsway.

Oh yeah I work at one of the Metrotower beside Metrotown. I concur with everybody else who said that this area has good night life after 5pm. Lots of people arrive to shop at Metrotown after they finish work.

is the Metrotown area the official downtown of Burnaby or is it just the central part of South Burnaby?

Montreal's suburbs
Longueuil(pop: 229,330)
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Laval(pop: 368,709) This may not represent the current skyline since they just finished the construction of a new tallest, and ugly, tower)
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong,but I'm pretty sure this isn't Laval, this is Riviere-des-prairie seen FROM Laval. I remember this in a Laval advertisement and Serge lacasse had pointed it this out.

Mississaugapop-668,549
(just to the right of toronto)
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Behold: my wonderful home town of Coquitlam, BC. Kneel before its glory!

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Waite Air Photos Inc.

Population is a little over 120,000

A similar view from 1986:
http://www.globalairphotos.com/image...qh1986_022.jpg

Mississauga needs a nice butte, right in the middle of everything, so that someone can get a decent shot of its skyline.

like winnipegs old garbage dump turned park?

EXACTLY!

burnaby without metrotown is pretty weak though... sure some good places to eat around it, but it is essentially just a decent collection of towers.

i watched "the day the earth stood still" yesterday - you get a good view of metrotwn area in the movie at the fake graveyard

i lived in Coquitlam as a kid, from 1988-1990. the townhouses we lived in were right across from the mall on Johnson Street, and weren't even built in the 1986 photo.

having visited a few friends of my girlfriends that live out there this new years eve made me realize how much the place has changed. its really coming into its own.

that expansion to coquitlam centre is so huge

Thats Yonge & Eglinton on the right.

But if Yonge/Eglinton is on the right and downtown is on the left, that photo would have to be set in Scarborough since Yonge/Eglinton is north of downtown Toronto. Think about it.

Its taken from Don Mills & Shepperd (in North York, but close to Scarborough).