The Ugly Canada Thread - Page 114

O-tacular · #**2261** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 7:19 PM**

Molson, I think you should have just named this thread the Laval Residences Soleil thread. You should start photoshopping it into sexy poses. One day add a bikini, the next dress it in some lingerie.

Daveography · #**2262** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 7:37 PM**

^ Please stop making suggestions.

SkahHigh · #**2263** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 7:55 PM**

This is in Markham, but a lot of Canadian suburbs look like this.

http://www.post-gazette.com/image/2014/10/04/ca61,0,1937,1251/ARush-TorontoRoth-013.jpg

esquire · #**2264** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 8:07 PM**

^ With a few trees and a proper gridded street layout, that would actually be pretty good

drew · #**2265** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 8:16 PM**

Looks a lot better than any suburbs going up in Winnipeg. If you think that's ugly, imagine it with stucco instead of brick, no stone finishes, garages facing the street, etc. etc.

kwoldtimer · #**2266** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 8:21 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by esquire

^ With a few trees and a proper gridded street layout, that would actually be pretty good

A sidewalk might help.

Franco401 · #**2267** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 8:22 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SkahHigh

This is in Markham, but a lot of Canadian suburbs look like this.

http://www.post-gazette.com/image/2014/10/04/ca61,0,1937,1251/ARush-TorontoRoth-013.jpg

I actually don't mind that. It looks better than all the newer suburbs in Fredericton, at least. They're all exactly this or maybe this. Apartments are worse, the vast majority being built are this building copied and pasted all over the place. Good thing vinyl siding comes in more than one color.
Here
Here (4-5 more have gone up here since Street View was taken)
Right in the middle of the city
It's like they're not even trying

1overcosc · #**2268** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 8:30 PM**

Where is picture taken exactly?

Markham is generally doing a decently good job with sprawl management, newer areas tend to be laid out well (check out these relatively gridded areas at the northern fringe of Markham: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.8955645,-79.3146354,15.75z), with sidewalks and trees.

"Faux heritage" like that is also becoming very popular as developers try to mimic the appearance of the old neighbourhoods. With many of those old neighbourhoods now home to million-dollar homes, that look and feel has fortunately become popular in the GTA suburbs as its associated with wealth/class.

EDIT: Matched up the street names. The area is not yet on street view, but here's a look into that subdivision from a nearby arterial: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.881752,-7...UwTS9TUS1CBUN60nN0Q-Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656. The vantage point from that picture may very well be in this field of view, it's not far.

looks like it does have sidewalks.

SkahHigh · #**2269** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 8:40 PM**

^William Berczy Boulevard it seems

O-tacular · #**2270** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 10:57 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by esquire

^ With a few trees and a proper gridded street layout, that would actually be pretty good

I agree. Actually looks better than the vinyl shit boxes we get here.

Nouvellecosse · #**2271** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 11:28 PM**

Yep. A sidewalk and trees and it would be quite pretty!

SkahHigh · #**2272** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 11:37 PM**

Ok then I have a real fugly one.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/65773455.jpg

Anyone wanna board the Laval spaceship?

Franco401 · #**2273** Posted **Jul 30, 2015, 12:06 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SkahHigh

Ok then I have a real fugly one.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/65773455.jpg

Anyone wanna board the Laval spaceship?

Holy. That's the most suburban thing I can imagine.

Innsertnamehere · #**2274** Posted **Jul 30, 2015, 12:27 AM**

Colossus in Vaughan and its surroundings. Right where the 12 lane Highway 407 meets the 16 lane Highway 400. Ikea across the highway. Colossus is in the upper left corner, with the circular parking lot.

Funny enough, the Toronto Region Conservation Authorities offices are beside the Ikea. The agency that is tasked with preserving Toronto's ravines has decided to locate in the middle of a sea of parking and highway interchanges.

Right beside it is the only 4 stack interchange in the city.

Vaughan also decided this would be a good spot to put their new downtown, and have decided to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to extend the subway here.

Great neighborhood!

Innsertnamehere · #**2275** Posted **Jul 30, 2015, 12:36 AM**

As for good suburbs, I'm a big fan of Cornell in Markham. Garages in rear lanes, leaving the streets for streetside parking and large trees. The rear garages often have second units atop them, creating affordable housing in the area and providing additional density.

Actual retail streets have been constructed, even if the retail space is substandard and the street is a bit wide.

Based on a streetgrid design.

In the near future along Highway 7 in the southern portion of the subdivision a high density, mixed use precinct will emerge with street fronting retail.

SkahHigh · #**2276** Posted **Jul 30, 2015, 12:38 AM**

Is Vaughan sorta like the Laval of the GTA?

Innsertnamehere · #**2277** Posted **Jul 30, 2015, 12:44 AM**

Brampton takes the prize of being the most suburban, really. Reality is that there are a bunch of really sprawly areas in the GTA. Vaughan is at least trying to change by making a downtown core and encouraging intensification. Brampton is still happily sprawling out like mad.

Vaughan is probably second worse however, and holds what is probably the largest suburban retail centre (pictured above) in the city. Both Vaughan and Brampton have huge industrial areas, but Vaughan tends to have sidewalks in most of the industrial areas, while Brampton is huge roads with factories hidden behind gigantic grass berms and gated employee parking lots.

Vaughan:

Brampton: