That's a democracy. Representatives ultimately represent their constituents. Of course, the constituents should be more interested in experience over name recognition or party lines but, that's party politics.
How people came to the conclusion that the rapid growth in foreign students is an issue may have to do with skin colour. They see it where they shop. They see it in the hospital waiting rooms. They see it on the University campuses. Their kids can't get a job. They wait and wait for an emergency medical consultation. Their kids can't get into a local university with a 90 plus average. Their conclusions aren't wrong that reassessing foreign students in Canada in numbers or things like allowing them to work is the easiest way for things to stabilize.
Ramping up construction through streamlined city planning encouraging people warehousing is not stability. It's doubling down.
massive changes from when I lived in Vancouver (94-98).
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Kitchener-Waterloo is almost a fascinating glimpse of Canada writ small of the last decade.
I was last there in 2012. It had just begun its transformation then.
In a way, a city poised for tomorrow. ION was just in its conceptualization and actualization stages. The beginnings of tower-scale redevelopment next to suburban homes, because the middle was barely even a concept in that city prior, aside from a few blocks off King Street. Now, the towers dominate sections of uptown Waterloo and are remaking Kitchener. The downsides were apparent though. RIM's slide was well underway by then.
The towers I'll withhold judgement upon. The suburbia they replaced wasn't exactly priceless and the heritage areas of Waterloo were retained. It's like we lost the ability to scale upwards without going next-level, though.
If it works in the long-term, great. But if it doesn't, ick. Repurposing at that scale is hard.
Now that, friends and neighbours, is a river. Nothing landlocked there.
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Don't be absurd. Clearly this is a photo of North Battleford.
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cool shot. The skypod (or space deck? the highest one used to be called the space deck and the lower one was called the skypod in the 70s, but now it isn't? whatever, the main bulge in the CN tower) is hidden. the subsidiary skylines rising behind Humber Bay. Highways hemmed in by skyscrapers. Asian-style metropolis.
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River shmriver. All the buildings are the same height, I can't tell which city this is, the one on the St-Lawrence or the one on the Rideau?
It will be interesting to see how the skylines of Ottawa and Montreal progress over the coming decade. Ottawa has far fewer restrictions on it's skyline, just some specific protected viewplanes. Montreal has a blanket restriction on it's core at 200m or so based on relation to Mont Royal. Ottawa has a far taller building proposed than Montreal allows (900 Albert T1) and no restrictions on further proposals outside of the protected viewplanes.
The entertainment district buildings, and really a lot of the new condos, are kind of a 2010s version of these:
They're vernacular towers in a city that is increasingly made of (as opposed to just having) towers.
Those, and also perhaps these. The ubiquitous, non-descript brown brick things so common in NYC but also seen to a lesser extent in other parts of the North East.
Google Maps
Not terribly interesting or attractive but adds a lot of density that's fairly cheap to build.
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Just want to reiterate this photo because it definitely deserves more attention. This is a suburban skyline of less than 80,000 people. Can anyone name another city or suburb of the same size that even comes close?
Just want to reiterate this photo because it definitely deserves more attention. This is a suburban skyline of less than 80,000 people. Can anyone name another city or suburb of the same size that even comes close?
The population in this context is irrelevant. New West isn't a standalone city of 80,000 people, it only exists as it is because it's part of a larger metropolitan entity - arbitrarily shrinking or expanding its boundaries further into Burnaby or Surrey wouldn't change the basic nature of the TOD development or make it any more or less impressive.
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