That's definitely the Top Notch angle of Montreal.
So massive by its continuous shape. Too bad they croped a couple of buildings from the rest of the skyline on the right.
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I reckon Montreal would have a much more impressive skyline if it wasn't for the hill (height restrictions notwithstanding). The hill can cause a lot of downtown's density to blend into the landscape, a particularly bad example of this being the photo posted by MTLSkyline last page:
I reckon Montreal would have a much more impressive skyline if it wasn't for the hill (height restrictions notwithstanding). The hill can cause a lot of downtown's density to blend into the landscape, a particularly bad example of this being the photo posted by MTLSkyline last page:
Take the hill out of the picture and you get FrAnKs' photo at the top of this page
The hill is one of the better features of Montreal. It's like complaining that Vancouver would be better if the downtown weren't on a peninsula, or Toronto would be better if there wasn't a lake.
^^true, I know very few cities in north america that has the luck of getting a hill next to downtown. Mount-Royal is Montreal's best asset, no discussion about that.
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Oh, certainly Mont Royal is a great element of the city; not only the city being lucky to be built on the side of a hill, but to have the hill protected and thoughtfully developed as a park. But specifically from the "whose skyline is better" point of view (which is of course extremely simplistic), I think it detracts. If Montreal was on a flat plain its skyline would be much more comparable to Toronto's.
Hard to tell. Even well outside of Downtown, Montreal's region isn't a place of very high skyscrapers and it has nothing to do with Mount royal there (Laval, Longueuil etc...)
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That's a great photo but man, they don't give you a lot of room to merge in Montreal, do they?
Not on these old highways. The Met is particulary notable for this. It is also known as the most dangerous highway in North America (highest rate of accidents)
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It would be a shame for this first pic to go by without the comments it deserves.
Awesome shot (too bad about the window reflection though) It shows how layered in height / style downtown Vancouver actually is, which adds a lot of interest to the urban form.
Looks very organic from this vantage point.
Also looks much larger than a metro of only 2.5 million.
Well for 2.5 million I am thinking in the NA context, but the Latin comment is interesting because honestly, Vancouver does look like a latin city from this angle.
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