Streetview Before and After - Page 4

Gresto · #61 Posted **Dec 26, 2021, 6:54 AM**

Anyone posted Humber Bay Shores yet?

2007:

2021:

#62 Posted **Dec 26, 2021, 8:58 PM**

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dreambrother808 · #63 Posted **Dec 26, 2021, 11:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by thomax

Markham - Cathedraltown
2011 vs. 2021

Google Street View

What?

#64 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 12:06 AM**

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EpicPonyTime · #65 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 12:33 AM**

I kind of love it. That's fantastic density, but it feels really remote somehow.

logan5 · #66 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 12:48 AM**

It's almost too perfect. It looks like a place you would see on an episode of The Twilight Zone.

The retail at ground level desperately needs some colour.

MolsonExport · #67 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 5:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout

Compare the Coquitlam images with Waterloo. Similarly drastic changes, but in Coquitlam's case, the public realm has also been improved and made more urban, whereas in Waterloo you have the same shitty stroads and hydro poles as when it was suburban sprawl. Just with fewer trees.

This x 2

MolsonExport · #68 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 5:38 PM**

I'm loving this thread.

esquire · #69 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 7:01 PM**

Cathedraltown looks like a posh district of suburban Kiev.

Kilgore Trout · #70 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 7:11 PM**

Here are scenes from around Montreal. Mostly streetscape improvements, but also some new development.

Place du Coteau-St-Louis – 2009/2011

Place Shamrock – 2009/2020

Place d'Armes – 2009/2020

St-Denis – 2011/2021

Buchan Street, the Triangle, 2011/2020

Place du Bonheur-d'Occasion, 2009/2019

William Street, 2009/2021

René-Lévesque/Mackay – 2009/2021

Overdale Avenue, 2009/2020

MonkeyRonin · #71 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 7:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout

Compare the Coquitlam images with Waterloo. Similarly drastic changes, but in Coquitlam's case, the public realm has also been improved and made more urban, whereas in Waterloo you have the same shitty stroads and hydro poles as when it was suburban sprawl. Just with fewer trees.

It mostly points to the piecemeal nature of Waterloo's development vs. the centralized, masterplanned redevelopment of Coquitlam - the latter of which is more typical of current redevelopment schemes across the country.

In Waterloo's case, there is no singular civic vision - these are individual properties being sold & redeveloped based on favourable updates to the zoning by-laws. This is free market, organic urbanisation at work - which is precisely what makes it so unique in 21st century Canada. The end result is...a bit disappointing, granted. Ideally, the City would be using the tax revenue generated by the new developments to improve the public realm as well.

MolsonExport · #72 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 7:52 PM**

Overdale and the Pointe/Griffintown were bombed-out wastelands for decades during my Montreal years. It is utterly remarkable how much things have changed.

lio45 · #73 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 8:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by thomax

Markham - Cathedraltown
2011 vs. 2021

Google Street View

lol

lio45 · #74 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 8:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Overdale and the Pointe/Griffintown were bombed-out wastelands for decades during my Montreal years. It is utterly remarkable how much things have changed.

True, though I'm personally not a fan at all of the bland style of most of those new Griffintown condos

MolsonExport · #75 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 8:07 PM**

For years, the term "beggars can't be choosers" characterized in-fill in inner-city Montreal. You had to take whatever you could get, lest the land rest fallow for decades. No longer.

SpongeG · #76 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 9:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by vanman

They're leveling even more. I'm really impressed at how Coquitlam has been able to upzone neighbourhoods with little to no political backlash.

my street, so far 8 houses have been demolished, being replaced soon with 6 storey condos. there is one plot which is two lots that last I heard would become an 11 storey rental, but no more info about it yet. Anyway one of the homeowners who has lived here for over 30 years said he sold his place for $4 million and was moving to the Island to retire nicely. all the houses on the street went for $4 million, there are 6 houses left on this block and a sign just went up for a land assembly.

The street over is adding a really impressive looking development, in the notes I read about it from the city many neighbors voiced their opposition but it was pretty much, we are going to lose value in our condo, or where are we gonna park now with so many new people or now I am losing my view, nothing really to make anyone feel sorry for them. I am happy to see they will be keeping the massive tree, it's so old and so big, a beautiful tree.

Its gonna be an unrecognizable area in 5 years or so.

SpongeG · #77 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 10:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by matt602

Wow that first Coquitlam shot is pretty screwed up. They basically erased a neighborhood to replace it with condos.

The city made a plan that has prezone or made rezoning really easy in an area full of SFH that spans from North Road over to Blue Mountain Road, probably an area that is about 3 km square, to allow Medium residential, and so far there are dozens of apartment condos going up and numerous townhouse developments. An old video about their plan.

This part of Coquitlam is well served by the Evergreen Skytrain and M-line. Also has a good 20-minute advantage on getting into Vancouver over the Central part of Coquitlam so it's a very desirable area, its also geographically pretty central to a lot of areas, New West, Burnaby, and Surrey are all only minutes away.

Kilgore Trout · #78 Posted **Dec 27, 2021, 11:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

It mostly points to the piecemeal nature of Waterloo's development vs. the centralized, masterplanned redevelopment of Coquitlam - the latter of which is more typical of current redevelopment schemes across the country.

In Waterloo's case, there is no singular civic vision - these are individual properties being sold & redeveloped based on favourable updates to the zoning by-laws. This is free market, organic urbanisation at work - which is precisely what makes it so unique in 21st century Canada. The end result is...a bit disappointing, granted. Ideally, the City would be using the tax revenue generated by the new developments to improve the public realm as well.

There's an interesting parallel with Griffintown in Montreal, which was upzoned without any real plan. It took years for a master plan to be implemented and now the city is busy upgrading the streets and building parks. I personally think this is an interesting way to approach things because the hodgepodge of totally organic development will eventually create an eclectic neighbourhood, even if it can be pretty ugly in the short term. But eventually some kind of master plan is crucial so you don't have awful car-oriented infrastructure in a dense neighbourhood.

SignalHillHiker · #79 Posted **Dec 28, 2021, 8:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by thomax

Markham - Cathedraltown
2011 vs. 2021

Google Street View

This is a cool transition but I’m gonna need to see pictures of what the women who live in these wear because I’m expecting prairie gowns. Sssooo culty.

Architype · #80 Posted **Dec 28, 2021, 8:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

This is a cool transition but I’m gonna need to see pictures of what the women who live in these wear because I’m expecting prairie gowns. Sssooo culty.

It also looks like a Potemkin village, or a Russian version of Seaside from the Truman Show.
Reminds me of This