The Great Canadian Skyline Thread!

[Chadillaccc]

Calgary in Autumn...


Calgary Skyline 2014 by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by Ashok

Imagine, Quebec City - Montreal - Ottawa - Toronto - Windsor becomes a single continous urban zone? Maybe if there is a HUGE influx of migrants to Alberta, Edmonton-Calgary would be one big metropolitan area of like 8-9 million people.

I dunno, even at 9 million, the corridor would only have a population density of 235/km2. It's a high density for such a large region (by any northern country's standards) at 38 323 km2, but hardly qualifies as a single metro region (even though it is only 10 000 km2 larger than the Chicago Metro Area ). At its current population of 3.1 million, the density of the corridor is 81/km2.

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Just downtown a bit by Paul Hillier Photography, on Flickr

Love that FCP. My favourite modern tower in Toronto (After Mies, of course).

[whiteford]

.Dallas-Fort Worth, seems a whole bunch bigger than our canadian cities in total area. i don't know how it shows up in the official books but if you look at it on google earth, well, it dwarfs us. seriously talk about big? it should show this place in the dictionary under massive. it also happens to have two great skylines. haha

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by MeIsThomas

Hamilton Skyline by simont925, on Flickr

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I miss the glow of Toronto. Heck even just Hamilton is brighter than Ottawa.

I just noticed Toronto lurking in the corner.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by whiteford

.Dallas-Fort Worth, seems a whole bunch bigger than our canadian cities in total area. i don't know how it shows up in the official books but if you look at it on google earth, well, it dwarfs us. seriously talk about big? it should show this place in the dictionary under massive. it also happens to have two great skylines. haha

I think it's found listed under the definition of "sprawling".

[TallBob]

Nice TO shot.

[Mrs Sauga]

Philly's skyline is better than Montreal skyline but not by much.

[Monolith]

If you look carefully, you can see Trump sprouting.

Downtown Vancouver Panorama by Vick Sahota, on Flickr

[Chadillaccc]

Vancouver always wins

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[middeljohn]

Toronto's skyline has gone from large to gargantuan over the last ten years.

[middeljohn]

[Monolith]

^^^^^^^^^^^
Love that second Edmonton shot.


My Sisters View by Carrie Cole Photography, on Flickr

[Razor]

Originally Posted by Ashok

Imagine, Quebec City - Montreal - Ottawa - Toronto - Windsor becomes a single continous urban zone? Maybe if there is a HUGE influx of migrants to Alberta, Edmonton-Calgary would be one big metropolitan area of like 8-9 million people.

Toronto to Windsor is well on it's way..Montreal to Ottawa not so much. You would think that with almost 6.0 million people between the two cities, that there potentially could of been more of that 401 type effect..There are two highway networks on both sides of the provincial border offsetting that..I imagine the 50 from Gatineau is much busier than the 417 to the 40.. I should take it one day.

The cities are just over 1.5 hours from each other, yet there isn't much in between except some little towns and villages scattered...Same with Ottawa to Toronto...lots of little towns save for Kingston, Oshawa..Canada is a long way off from having that continuous Eastern Seaboard type density ..The Greater Golden Horseshoe is the Canadian version I suppose...Now I'm just looking at that last Edmonton shot..Great view!

[travis3000]

Amazing pics! Love the Vancouver and Toronto shots

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by Razor

Toronto to Windsor is well on it's way..Montreal to Ottawa not so much. You would think that with almost 6.0 million people between the two cities, that there potentially could of been more of that 401 type effect..There are two highway networks on both sides of the provincial border offsetting that..I imagine the 50 from Gatineau is much busier than the 417 to the 40.. I should take it one day.

The cities are just over 1.5 hours from each other, yet there isn't much in between except some little towns and villages scattered...Same with Ottawa to Toronto...lots of little towns save for Kingston, Oshawa..Canada is a long way off from having that continuous Eastern Seaboard type density ..The Greater Golden Horseshoe is the Canadian version I suppose...Now I'm just looking at that last Edmonton shot..Great view!

I don't want to see a sprawl for Quebec to Windsor. We need more density. I could see Ottawa and Montreal reaching into one another when Montreal is 1-2 million bigger and Ottawa .5-1 million bigger. I don't want them sprawling into each other before then, that just indicates low density exurbia.

[Razor]

^ Which is exactly what the Eastern seaboard is..You are correct..It's better to have cities separated with nothing in between, but with high density within their own borders, vs endless sprawl connecting them...With our car culture in NA, its un-avoidable though.

[Trans Canada]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Just downtown a bit by Paul Hillier Photography, on Flickr

Love this pic. Very tasteful use of perspective-shift or whatever. I see Trump doesn't look downright ugly at night.

[1ajs]

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