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Originally Posted by Gresto
This area of the city is not exactly pulchritudinous. One can only hope it improves with time.
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“Pulchritudinous” great word, I know I had to look it up. I luuuv learning new words, really, I’m serious and not kidding. This one was kinda tough though, not much progeny so far, in time that might change. Maybe you are starting something, maybe one day we will see that word on the cover of a high-end cereal box. Imagine: “the beautiful or pulchritudinous flake” of corn or spelt or whatever.
BTW and more to the point when I said “awesome” in post #7 in this context I am writing about the perhaps purer form of the word thinking about the achievement of constructing these things and the change that has transformed this area so far. To me there is beauty in that and indeed there seems to be a lot of tourists that like to take pictures of this waterfront area. Sure there is always room or hope for improvements and the “Daniels Waterfront-City of the Arts” is one development that is now under way will add to the “flow of the glow” if you will - see the excavator on the right side of the second picture at the beginning of this tread for its (C. of the A.) location. I think we are doing pretty well in the spectrum between third world slums on one end and Dubai, Shanghai or Hong Kong on the other; Singapore is certainly nice. I believe it is true that North America is generally more conservative in world building design and we could use more Avant guard or cutting edge architecture as a contrast. There are some really amazing structures being built on the globe now and Toronto is in a good position to occasionally contribute to that kind of thing. At least more than it already is doing, but I maintain that TO still “has it going” and overall is a great place.