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Originally Posted by whatnext
Turn it around - what is so great about taller towers? NYC is full of buildings taller than Vancouver's, most of them so banal that if you were shown a picture in isolation you wouldn't be able to identify where they were, much less what the name of the building was.
Vancouver's unique selling proposition is the mountains, there are literally a handful of cities in the world that combine an ocean setting with tall mountains. Why obscure that for private profit and make no mistake, that is what it boils down to. No developer is building with a goal of leaving some outstandingly beautiful tall building as a legacy for the ages, they're doing it to line their pockets.
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And NYC is one of the most visited, cultural, interesting, diverse and vibrant cities in the entire planet. Do you think people go there for the low-rise Bronx?
Similarly, way more visitors come to downtown Vancouver than anywhere in the mountains.
From Oregon to Yukon, there are numerous cities and towns with mountains as the backdrop, but only a couple with a nice skyline and mountain backdrop. Let Vancouver be the one on the West Coast.
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