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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
It's a shame as the built form of these Waterloo neighbourhoods are actually kind of interesting: post-war suburbia being replaced by 5-10 storey mid-rise apartment buildings. It's a good scale, has got some small retail spaces mixed in (seems like the kind of environment that would really foster interesting local businesses as well), and provides something of a model for how low-density SFH neighbourhoods can organically be redeveloped into higher-density mixed-use areas given some loosening of zoning rules. Unfortunately all of the architecture is just godawful, and the public realm so utilitarian.
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Nice examples. The Eddington development in Cambridge, UK has a similar vibe.
This part of Waterloo is a visual nightmare. Ontario and Canada need urban ministries to encourage aesthetic vigour. But I also think we need to develop a general civic culture that appreciates and demands good architecture, landscapes, and urban design and planning. I believe we're moving in the right direction, but gosh—what a hill to climb when I see developments like this, or elsewhere in Southern Ontario.
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