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adam · #41 Posted **Sep 8, 2008, 9:15 PM**

A better building surely isn't one that will look like crap 5 years after it is built, and yes, the majority of human being prefer to have a balance of green space to asphault.

raisethehammer · #42 Posted **Sep 8, 2008, 10:43 PM**

how about lots of trees and benches.
Like in Montreal. You can stop and sit all over town and enjoy life.
Here, we seem to value these stupid little wasted green spaces with no benches or trees.

realcity · #43 Posted **Sep 8, 2008, 11:51 PM**

even worse... in hamilton we install bars over the benches to prevent someone from laying down. Assuming of course (in Hamilton only) that only homeless, alcoholic, drug adicted, bums need or want to lie down on a bench. God help me if I'm on my lunch break from a downtown office and would like to lay down on a bench in the sun for 15 minutes..... nooo. not in Hamilton... only bums do that.

adam · #44 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 12:31 AM**

I am a bum btw LOL!

raisethehammer · #45 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 12:38 AM**

this city has been run by anal whitebreads for too long...it's time to let the city just be a city again.
all historic photos of Gore park show 'bums' sitting around the park while ladies in dresses and hats walk and sit and enjoy the city.
THAT'S city life!! city life is NOT a bunch of white, plastic-surgeried, hollywood addicts walking through a shopping mall trying to pretend to be cool. Imagine the response of people if a 'bum' were to lay down in front of the Limeridge Mall entrance....mothers would scream and hurry their kids away...heaven forbid their kids grow up realizing that they are living in a FAKE bubble!
Let's start acting more like Montreal and less like Croakville.

realcity · #46 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 12:35 PM**

what I'm saying is that I would like to have the option to lie down on a bench, if of course no one else was waiting to. There is nothing wrong with sitting down on the grass or laying on a park bench. This city assumes you're homeless if you do.

raisethehammer · #47 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 10:49 PM**

no kidding. we're anal.

omro · #48 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 11:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by raisethehammer

But it doesn't do any justice to what used to be there.
If it was built on an empty lot I'd be praising it, but praise is tempered considering what was there before.

Are there any photos of its predecessor?

highwater · #49 Posted **Sep 9, 2008, 11:58 PM**

http://pages.interlog.com/~urbanism/moham.html

Scroll down to the Health Department Building. The pics don't really do it justice. It was a real floater, a la Villa Savoie.

fastcarsfreedom · #50 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 1:30 AM**

I don't like the hatcheting of Roscoe's work either. It's a damn shame that the Health Department building couldn't be maintained closer to it's intended form--hell, no doubt it could've...but at least the building was not destroyed.

The modifications to the Westdale Library were a real travesty also. I remember driving by there all the time as a kid and marvelling at that lighted ceiling and the way it continued outside past the curtain wall to the upturn along the King Street frontage...such a shame it was destroyed.

DC83 · #51 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 1:55 AM**

^^ yep, the inner city used to impress me as a kid too.
So much more appealing than the cookie cutter crap we're stuck with now-a-days, eh Fastcars?

BCTed · #52 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 2:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by raisethehammer

city life is NOT a bunch of white, plastic-surgeried, hollywood addicts walking through a shopping mall trying to pretend to be cool. Imagine the response of people if a 'bum' were to lay down in front of the Limeridge Mall entrance....mothers would scream and hurry their kids away...heaven forbid their kids grow up realizing that they are living in a FAKE bubble!

I am perilously close to calling someone off-topic for the first time ever. Why always needlessly go out of your way to bi-sect the population into city people and suburbanites?

Is it not possible that these fake Lime Ridge-loving creatures would also like to lie on a park bench sometime?

raisethehammer · #53 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 2:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by BCTed

I am perilously close to calling someone off-topic for the first time ever. Why always needlessly go out of your way to bi-sect the population into city people and suburbanites?

Is it not possible that these fake Lime Ridge-loving creatures would also like to lie on a park bench sometime?

yea, I can just see it now. A mother and her daughter finish buying their preppy clothes and plastering on some more makeup before leaving the mall (so they look good for the walk through the parking lot to their car). The mother turns to the daughter and says "instead of going home to watch American Idol, why don't we head downtown to Gore Park and take a nap on a bench?"

omro · #54 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 7:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by highwater

http://pages.interlog.com/~urbanism/moham.html

Scroll down to the Health Department Building. The pics don't really do it justice. It was a real floater, a la Villa Savoie.

Hmmm, based solely on that photo (having never personally seen the original) I like the look of what's there now more.

I'm loving that photo of city hall, it looks right out of Thunderbirds

FRM · #55 Posted **Sep 11, 2008, 5:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by raisethehammer

yea, I can just see it now. A mother and her daughter finish buying their preppy clothes and plastering on some more makeup before leaving the mall (so they look good for the walk through the parking lot to their car). The mother turns to the daughter and says "instead of going home to watch American Idol, why don't we head downtown to Gore Park and take a nap on a bench?"

why do you have so much hate for people who have different lifestyles than you? Not everyone on the mountain is ignorant and not everyone in the downtown is like you.

Dundasguy · #56 Posted **Sep 11, 2008, 6:44 PM**

I have noticed this as well. In my short time on this board, I suspect that opinions of suburban dwellers' like me (Dundas) are not very welcome on this forum and are dismissed as small thinking.

FairHamilton · #57 Posted **Sep 11, 2008, 6:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by FRM

and not everyone in the downtown is like you.

Thankfully!!!

FairHamilton · #58 Posted **Sep 11, 2008, 6:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dundasguy

I have noticed this as well. In my short time on this board, I suspect that opinions of suburban dwellers' like me (Dundas) are not very welcome on this forum and are dismissed as small thinking.

Welcome to the board!!!

Some are of the forumers with more open minds are welcoming. Please don't let those with narrow minds scare you away.

DC83 · #59 Posted **Sep 11, 2008, 6:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dundasguy

I have noticed this as well. In my short time on this board, I suspect that opinions of suburban dwellers' like me (Dundas) are not very welcome on this forum and are dismissed as small thinking.

Welcome to the board

We love Dundas and all of Hamilton (incl its suburbs) and it's developments. Unfortunately this City is always about moving one step foward, 2 steps back (I think it's our motto in Hamilton?), so some forumers get frustrated. Obviously.

So don't be afraid to share your opinion(s)! And don't be afraid to lay on a downtown bench somewhere... just check the seat b4 u do :s

raisethehammer · #60 Posted **Sep 11, 2008, 7:32 PM**

don't let the people with no sense of humour scare you away either! Lol.
Welcome aboard. Dundas is the best small town/suburb in the area....possibly the province!
We'd love to have more representation from the Valley Town. I think Flar is the only one on here from Dundas and is consistently the best poster on the board.
Cheers.