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Originally Posted by realcity
This is what Hamilton (a city) should be promoting. It's urbanness. Not the 'nature' around it.
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Originally Posted by highwater
From a 'branding' point of view (if we must 'brand' our city at all, but that's another discussion), we should be promoting the fact that we are still one of the densest cities in the country (in spite of the best efforts of a succession of political leaders and their sprawl developer buddies), with one of the largest remaining collection of c19 and early c20 building and housing stock, etc., along with all the social, cultural, and economic benefits that entails.
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We should be promoting both aspects. Most people want everything, so they want a city that has both aspects. This is a large reason why Vancouver is is booming; look at the environment they have - and they exploit and advertise it well.
The geography and topography of Hamilton is impressive and should be advertised along with the factors you two are talking about.
However, I do think Ecklund's tactics are cheesy... These pictures of the waterfalls are pitiful. First of all, they detract from the actual beauty of the falls. Second of all I could whip these up in PhotoShop in about 2 minutes... it's not a great effort.