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Originally Posted by Jringe01
www.savetheview.ca also says that
" The proposed Convention Centre towers fly in the face of current best practices in the world’s great historic cities like London, Paris, Jerusalem, Vienna, Charleston and Quebec City. These great cities are tightening design controls and blocking the erection of towers in their city centres. Shouldn’t Halifax, a great Canadian historic city, be doing the same?"
However I would surmise that they haven't taken a real good look at the towers currently under construction (and proposed) in the City and in Westminster/Lambeth etc...it also helps cities like London and Paris is that they have set aside areas specifically for high-rise construction because they have the space, money, economy and political will do do so...where would they propose building "LaDefense" in Halifax???
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If they did a bit more homework, they work also see that Quebec City has a number of highrise proposals, including this one -
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=169160 . I think that the people writing these things hope that no one will do any further research. That is what annoys me the most about this group - they think that people will just blindly accept all of their twisted facts. Maybe before the internet came along that was the case but now ....
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