[Doady]

This area was first developed in the 90s, not the 70s. The original Erin Mills community is actually located to the south, around South Common. These photos should Central Erin Mills, which is a different neighbourhood than Erin Mills...

Central Erin Mills is poorly designed, even by Mississauga's standards. Notice the high rise condos in the second and third photos and their HUGE setbacks from the street. Dozens of high-rise apartment buildings have been built all over Mississauga in the past 15 years, and towers-in-a-park were a thing of the past in Mississauga until these towers were built.

Even worse thing about these huge setbacks is that the street (Eglinton Ave) is one of the three corridors designated by the City of Mississauga as a Major Transit Corridor and a possible candidate for future BRT or LRT. Eglinton has 4 different dedicated bus routes with combined 7 to 13 minute frequency throughout most of the day, and around 10,000 riders per weekday, so it is very busy. But huge setbacks don't exactly encourage more people to walk and take transit. Fortunately, all of the other apartment buildings along Eglinton were built (or are being built) much closer to the sidewalk. But you'd think that apartment buildings in a major node would have been too.

Edit: BTW, this thread should be moved to the My City Photos - A - M section because Mississauga starts with the letter M