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Originally Posted by wave46
I mean purely from a design standpoint only.
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Oh yeah; 90% of buildings constructed after 1955 have been mediocre at best.
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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl
Yet Montreal’s beautification of its public realm has boomed since amalgamation.
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Montreal, even after amalgamation, is still mostly urban. We're talking about a city that's 431.50 km2 vs Ottawa's 2,790.30 km2. The former City of Montreal represents about 65% of the population while old Ottawa only represents about 35% of the population.
If the entire Island of Montreal (which was the initial amalgamation before the referendums), Laval, Longueuil and a bunch of other suburbs came together to form one city, it would be much harder to get things done in the former City of Montreal.