The Great Canadian Skyline Thread!

[MolsonExport]

Just beautiful. Nat Geog quality.

[Chadillaccc]

http://calgaryherald.com/business/new-bo...y-commercial-real-estate?__lsa=ce08-bda4

[ghYHZ]

Skyline with a difference…..

I was in North Sydney, Nova Scotia last weekend and noticed how the Newfoundland ferries with nine or ten decks…..dominate the small town’s skyline.

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

http://calgaryherald.com/business/new-bo...y-commercial-real-estate?__lsa=ce08-bda4

Brookfield, Telus and Oxford will make that the perfect skyline from that angle.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by logan5

People are right to say that some are being too touchy, but at the same time, why is there so much focus from others around the country on this small stretch of Georgia?

There isn't. The focus is on the resulting conversation. There was only a short passing comment on the actual street and no one else even noticed the street scene let alone focused on it until the discussion got going.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by logan5

People are right to say that some are being too touchy, but at the same time, why is there so much focus from others around the country on this small stretch of Georgia?

The focus on this small stretch of Georgia was the result of Vancouverites challenging a couple innocents remarks by people from St. John's-Ottawa/Kingston. It would have passed barely noticed, otherwise.

I also think that if that one pic hadn't been labeled "the busiest stretch of road in Downtown Vancouver" the reaction to the somewhat suburban-ish character of the streetscape wouldn't have happened.

The way I see it, the Canada section is the place to say things like this. Someone from Vancouver who's barely set foot in Montreal in his life can see a pic of the Bonaventure Expressway and be all "wow, I had no idea you guys had this concrete monster right downtown!" and the SSP Montreal crowd should be "yeah, we do. The dense rowhouse neighborhood that used to be there was regarded as old and filthy in the '50s, this thing was modernity, built to deliver its multi-lane flow of automobiles right in the heart of downtown! Isn't it awful in retrospect?"

If you don't want people from thousands of km away say things like "the view in this pic feels [whatever] to me, considering my own background and the fact that I'm not an expert on your city" then just don't post your pics here, keep them for your local section.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by sunsetmountainland

Leo, it has been a lot of fun reading your posts. You certainly do not know anything about Vancouver. You are basically a troll with a very myopic insight! I am curious with your statement to LeftCoaster you have proved you have not been here before!

If you understand anything about the area you are talking about it is the crown jewel of Vancouver Stanley park. You go from extreme urban to a huge world class park. The main road from another crown jewel of Vancouver the lions gate bridge.
You need to understand the geography before you understand what you are talking about. You need to stick to Montreal and Merritt island FL

I spent about 2.5 weeks (including the drive back to Sherbrooke) in BC and that included Victoria, Tofino, skiing at Whistler-Blackcomb, and a significant amount of time spent meeting my sis' friends and her Van social circles which ate into my personal sightseeing.

Stanley Park was a big "meh" to me (as a tourist who was there for a short time). Saw it, and immediately told my sis that we should move on. I'm downtown and I'm an architecture/heritage fan, I want to see buildings, not trees. We spent maybe a few minutes there and that was it.

That was five years ago as well, and my sis was the 'local' so she was the one in charge of the directions while we were there. If you let me loose in Van now without a map I'm far from sure I'd recall enough to find my way. I didn't pay much attention then as I knew my stay over there would be temporary.

If you want to doubt my word go ahead, but I see no reason to lie about these things on this forum. Dig up my old posts if you want, everything's coherent, and everything's true. Now you can go back to your local SSP Vancouver section... thanks and bye.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by lio45

The focus on this small stretch of Georgia was the result of Vancouverites challenging a couple innocents remarks by people from St. John's-Ottawa/Kingston. It would have passed barely noticed, otherwise.

I also think that if that one pic hadn't been labeled "the busiest stretch of road in Downtown Vancouver" the reaction to the somewhat suburban-ish character of the streetscape wouldn't have happened.

The way I see it, the Canada section is the place to say things like this. Someone from Vancouver who's barely set foot in Montreal in his life can see a pic of the Bonaventure Expressway and be all "wow, I had no idea you guys had this concrete monster right downtown!" and the SSP Montreal crowd should be "yeah, we do. The dense rowhouse neighborhood that used to be there was regarded as old and filthy in the '50s, this thing was modernity, built to deliver its multi-lane flow of automobiles right in the heart of downtown! Isn't it awful in retrospect?"

If you don't want people from thousands of km away say things like "the view in this pic feels [whatever] to me, considering my own background and the fact that I'm not an expert on your city" then just don't post your pics here, keep them for your local section.

We must be on different wavelengths as I read the bolded part to clearly mean vehicular traffic in the context of a wide roadway.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by GlassCity

I'd even say that Chevron is THE most common. Husky I barely ever see. Though I think there's some variation depending on where in the region you live too.

Chevron is really centered on the West Coast. I'm pretty sure they're totally absent from the Northeast/Midwest. There are some in FL but I think they're all ex-Texaco stations, and I don't recall where they stop on the East Coast.

In Calif they were everywhere, though.

So, yeah, Chevron stations are another flagship of Cascadia on both sides of the border

[lio45]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

We must be on different wavelengths as I read the bolded part to clearly mean vehicular traffic in the context of a wide roadway.

Yeah, sure, but normally the busiest streets in a downtown for vehicular traffic are still very urban in terms of streetscape. I mean if you look at what's most consistently red in live traffic maps in Montreal, NYC, Toronto, etc. (limiting yourself to the downtown only, of course).

And again, don't forget that the caption stated that the image shown was downtown -- that part was IMO even more important than the fact it's the downtown's busiest for priming for the Easterners' reaction that it felt somewhat suburban-ish in built form.

If you showed me a pic of a bunch of detached little SFHs in Sunnyside and told the forum that it was somewhere in Calgary, it might very well pass without comments, but if you go and state that this pic was taken 200 m from the edge of the CBD, then you're basically fishing for "OMG, that looks so suburban" comments from people not familiar with Calgary, so don't be surprised or insulted if you get some of those.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by Spring2008

Some people just need griminess/lack of greenery to consider neighbourhoods urban.

Yes, exactly.

"Wasted" space for greenery on each single building's lot is certainly unambiguously a not-very-urban characteristic.

While the opposite, i.e. buildings that go all the way to the end of their lot on all sides, is unambiguously an urban characteristic.

It's possible to acknowledge that fact without automatically leaping to the conclusion that "more urban" is always better on all counts -- something that no one has said. FWIW, from a few pages ago:

Originally Posted by lio45

Which, again, is not supposed to be an insult. Unless on this forum, grit, graffiti, street level windows with bars, garbage bags outside doors, trash whirling with the wind, homeless people sleeping on the curb, concrete everywhere, smog, the smell of urine, the absence of trees and grass, and all the other typical caracteristics of extreme urbanity are unambiguously desirable, because this is SSP?

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by lio45

Yeah, sure, but normally the busiest streets in a downtown for vehicular traffic are still very urban in terms of streetscape. I mean if you look at what's most consistently red in live traffic maps in Montreal, NYC, Toronto, etc. (limiting yourself to the downtown only, of course).

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/1...hat-happens-when-they-outgrow-the-space/

Great streetscape. Especially the surface parking.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

The following photo tour...

... was absolutely epic.

I actually did not recall that the stock of pre-war buildings was that extensive in Van.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by csbvan

Great streetscape. Especially the surface parking.

That road is totally empty

[Nouvellecosse]

And it's not a busy "street", it's a limited access expressway.

[Calgarian]

You guys are still going on about this? move on already...

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by lio45

Yeah, sure, but normally the busiest streets in a downtown for vehicular traffic are still very urban in terms of streetscape. I mean if you look at what's most consistently red in live traffic maps in Montreal, NYC, Toronto, etc. (limiting yourself to the downtown only, of course).

And again, don't forget that the caption stated that the image shown was downtown -- that part was IMO even more important than the fact it's the downtown's busiest for priming for the Easterners' reaction that it felt somewhat suburban-ish in built form.

If you showed me a pic of a bunch of detached little SFHs in Sunnyside and told the forum that it was somewhere in Calgary, it might very well pass without comments, but if you go and state that this pic was taken 200 m from the edge of the CBD, then you're basically fishing for "OMG, that looks so suburban" comments from people not familiar with Calgary, so don't be surprised or insulted if you get some of those.

Whatever, we're splitting hairs now. As to your point about Calgary, I never showed an image of SFH's and pointed out that it's right next to DT. You did that. An aerial photograph of DT was shown in which a troll I won't name went and said 'Geez that looks really tiny'. I responded to his comment and you went and grabbed streetview pics from Sunnyside to prove that the troll was somehow not trolling. Anyways, let's get back to skyline pics.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by lio45

The way I see it, the Canada section is the place to say things like this. Someone from Vancouver who's barely set foot in Montreal in his life can see a pic of the Bonaventure Expressway and be all "wow, I had no idea you guys had this concrete monster right downtown!" and the SSP Montreal crowd should be "yeah, we do. The dense rowhouse neighborhood that used to be there was regarded as old and filthy in the '50s, this thing was modernity, built to deliver its multi-lane flow of automobiles right in the heart of downtown! Isn't it awful in retrospect?"

If you don't want people from thousands of km away say things like "the view in this pic feels [whatever] to me, considering my own background and the fact that I'm not an expert on your city" then just don't post your pics here, keep them for your local section.

[TorontoDrew]

One I took in the fall of 2012.

[MonkeyRonin]

Skyline by @416Shots, on Flickr