The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 425

Chadillaccc · #**8481** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 10:49 AM**

http://robmosesphotography.com/tag/calgary/

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TallBob · #**8482** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 2:31 PM**

Nice Calgary shots...top one is about 1 year old I think.

le calmar · #**8483** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 3:45 PM**

Nice pics indeed. The Bow on the first one looks like a tropical lagoon somewhat.

cyeg66 · #**8484** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 5:59 PM**

It's unfortunate the Eau Clair proposal has been kaibosh'ed for now. It would be nice to see that gap get backfilled with vertical development(s).

Coldrsx · #**8485** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 7:46 PM**

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http://www.stockaerialphotos.com/media/c...rev=8a66a9b0-b16d-47af-821e-b82c1a29135a

One of the best 'comprehensive' shots of our north and south skyline.

Monolith · #**8486** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 8:45 PM**

^^ Love that shot of Edmonton!

View on harbour from hotel room at Westin Bayshore in Vancouver by Vincent Demers, on Flickr Taken on November 11, 2015

Flying over Vancouver by Peggy Reimchen, on Flickr Taken on November 11, 2015

#**8487** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 10:12 PM**

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esquire · #**8488** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 10:21 PM**

^ Nice aerial of Niagara Falls, the actual city.

Chadillaccc · #**8489** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 12:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by TallBob

Nice Calgary shots...top one is about 1 year old I think.

Top one couldn't possibly be a year old. City Centre 1 wasn't completed a year ago.

TallBob · #**8490** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 1:31 AM**

^^ My gosh... I couldn't even see the damn thing!!

matt602 · #**8491** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 2:40 AM**

Kinda sad that you can't even tell where downtown Niagara Falls is in that picture unless you actually know.

This condo proposal for downtown might change things though...

ScreamingViking · #**8492** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 4:35 AM**

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Kinda sad that you can't even tell where downtown Niagara Falls is in that picture unless you actually know.

This condo proposal for downtown might change things though...

And it's not even IN that photo... it's off the right edge in the top 1/3 of the pic, above that east-west road that is the 420.

Downtown Niagara Falls is pretty interesting. Small, gritty, but a different world than the parts of town most people visit.

Beedok · #**8493** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 12:38 PM**

From what I've seen in person and on google maps Niagara Falls seems rather multi-nodal.

koops65 · #**8494** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 2:12 PM**

There are no tall buildings in downtown NF either... it makes Kitchener's skyline look impressive actually.

Nouvellecosse · #**8495** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 4:47 PM**

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A single node centralised city does. A multi-nodal spread out city can grow as you explore it. All sorts of interesting commercial strips and such hidden off to the sides.

Thunder Bay is always surprising me when I wander off somewhere new.

I'm not sure in what category to place Halifax. There's more than one downtown and it's very spread out, but the main core tends to have sufficient gravitas to make a statement.

I had lived here for many years before I'd ever been to Bedford or Sackville (other than briefly passing through on the train). And it was years before I discovered the moody inner city parts of Dartmouth. None of those things make the city seem any bigger to me though. For my mind, a city is like a tree. Once I understand it well enough to know how thick its trunk is, how tall it is, and how far its branches and canopy extend, then that's the limit of its size. Finding out the number and variation of its leaves doesn't make it seem bigger. But until I really know these basic limitations, in my mind it could be endless. I guess it's just an illusion caused by possibility.

Beedok · #**8496** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 5:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

I'm not sure in what category to place Halifax. There's more than one downtown and it's very spread out, but the main core tends to have sufficient gravitas to make a statement.

I had lived here for many years before I'd ever been to Bedford or Sackville (other than briefly passing through on the train). And it was years before I discovered the moody inner city parts of Dartmouth. None of those things make the city seem any bigger to me though. For my mind, a city is like a tree. Once I understand it well enough to know how thick its trunk is, how tall it is, and how far its branches and canopy extend, then that's the limit of its size. Finding out the number and variation of its leaves doesn't make it seem bigger. But until I really know these basic limitations, in my mind it could be endless. I guess it's just an illusion caused by possibility.

Yeah, plunked down with no knowledge a city can seem endless. I do think that finding interesting new neighbourhoods bustling with activity helps though. Maybe it's because I barely consider SFH neighbourhoods to be city, so finding something else makes the true city-ness seem bigger to me?

Nouvellecosse · #**8497** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 5:40 PM**

Yes that would make sense. I suppose if i were to discover a new non-SFH urban district it would expand my concept of the city. In my case I just know it so well that's probably never going to happen lol.