I think our suburbs definitely in a better position than most of those in the States. They still require some organic growth that takes time and natural shifts in public perceptions. In the past decade we've artificially created high-rise cores, but it will take time for them to become urban cores. You know, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Well you can put people in dense high-rise clusters, but you can't necessarily make them live an urban lifestyle. As the costs of the suburban lifestyle increase, the transition will be made, and it will be easier than if everone was living in a detached house.
The way I look at it is that suburbs are going to exist regardless, and if we get to choose between highrise suburbs an sprawling detached suburbs, I'll choose the former.
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We were talking about our suburban skylines being larger than many major established American cities ( such as St. Louis, Phoenix, etc), not American suburbs. Come to think of it though... I'm hard pressed to think of any American suburb that has Canadian style suburban high-rise density.
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We were talking about our suburban skylines being larger than many major established American cities ( such as St. Louis, Phoenix, etc), not American suburbs. Come to think of it though... I'm hard pressed to think of any American suburb that has Canadian style suburban high-rise density.
Oakland might be the closest suburban skyline, but it still is a long ways from Mississauga.
IMO Mississauga's skyline is bigger and denser than all of the downtown skylines in the US except for :
NYC
San Francisco
Boston
Chicago
Philly
Seattle
Los angeles
Oakland might be the closest suburban skyline, but it still is a long ways from Mississauga.
IMO Mississauga's skyline is bigger and denser than all of the downtown skylines in the US except for :
NYC
San Francisco
Boston
Chicago
Philly
Seattle
Los angeles
Really??? Bigger and denser than Houston, Dallas, Miami, Denver, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh etc....I could go on and on......
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Yeah, I definitely agree with Biff, there are multitudes of American cities that are bigger, taller and denser then Mississauga. Especially including Atlanta.
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No matter how many windows are boarded up/how high the murder rate is lmao! Ohhh good old Merka.
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You're over estimating Mississauga just a weeeeee bit there.
Agree. If memory serves me well, I have Mississauga in at around 23rd spot in north America.
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Right! I did know about that one, I was drawing a blank when I posted that though. Are there anymore? I hear Bellevue is actually pretty nice and has an urban feel to its core even.
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lmao! Ohhh good old Merka.
i don't know about that one. everyone i talk to rates it way up there. haha
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