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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl
But that looks more suburban than anything else. To my eyes, it even feels empty and desolate, not a urban lover's walking experience. So it valides the point Beedok was making. The rows of triplexes tightly packed on much narrower streets feel a lot more urban to me and gives the city a much more denser feel, a more enclosing sentiment. I don't envy the kind of streetscapes pictured above.
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Actually I was focused a bit more downtown. More like a walk along Rue St. Catherine vs. Queen St, or 4th Avenue in Calgary and King St. in Toronto. Toronto peaks higher, but being linear those intersecting roads go through the peak faster, and in Calgary's case the difference of maximum height isn't that huge. Toronto's still on top of course, just the lead in that department isn't as big as one would at first expect when just counting towers. Once you move out to the triplexes of Montreal then it's only Toronto and Montreal in the running, and when you move out to Vancouver's outer nodes it's only Toronto and Vancouver really in the running (though Ottawa does try and have a few decent attempts there).