Post some pictures of your city! II

[Chadillaccc]

Chinatown Calgary. Canada's 4th largest Chinatown, and the 3rd largest Chinese population in the country.






http://gi365.info/adventure/chinatown-in-calgary/

http://www.culturalcentre.ca/index.p...ion-objectives

http://www.tripomatic.com/Canada/Alb...ltural-Centre/



http://theroadtriphound.com/2013/08/...rys-chinatown/

http://www.photojunkie.ca/archive/20...atown-calgary/

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[SignalHillHiker]

One of my friends who moved to Quebec City posts really interesting (to me) photo updates, with a heavy emphasis on how her lifestyle has changed.

This was today's (though, presumably, the picture is older):



Also, got really excited... but it's not our flag

[Nouvellecosse]

That neighbourhood really looks ideal! Generally I prefer houses to be tightly packed but still have a narrow alley between them like in much of Halifax, but that area is just gorgeous.

[SignalHillHiker]

Yeah, it's beautiful. Sometimes I wish a place like that was in my blood so that I could really live there, and have the same strength of belonging and see my identity reflected in the place to the same extent I do here.

I'd love to feel part of a Quebec City, or a Montreal, or a Calgary, or a Vancouver... enough to really live there. But I'm just too attached to home. I'd feel like I abandonned my family for another one. Doesn't matter if its better in all the ways that matter to me... I'd just feel guilty.

[someone123]

Halifax:


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[davidivivid]

Fairly certain that this is Lockwell street, which is one of my favourite street in Quebec City.

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

One of my friends who moved to Quebec City posts really interesting (to me) photo updates, with a heavy emphasis on how her lifestyle has changed.

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by davidivivid

Fairly certain that this is Lockwell street, which is one of my favourite street in Quebec City.

Nice ! That street is 3min away from my home by driving.

David : what makes that street being so special for you ?. I looks nice indeed, hence the architecture looks like to be as typical as everything around.

[Darkoshvilli]

It looks like exactly like the Plateau. Like, to a tee.

[someone123]

Here's another one. I like the variety of buildings in the "near" South End:


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[isaidso]

Halifax is quite dense, but it's sure not a city with much in the way of height. It's low and mid rise downtown for the most part.

[Chadillaccc]

Halifax is much like Ottawa in that even though it's not tall, it still has a feeling of big city density, along with fantastic historic bones. Halifax's skyline is very aesthetically pleasing to boot.

[Martin Mtl]

Christ Church Cathedral


130520058 Montreal (web) by PhotoDiversions on Flickr

And speaking of Halifax, by the same photographer:


120205004 (web) by PhotoDiversions on Flickr

[RyeJay]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Halifax is quite dense, but it's sure not a city with much in the way of height. It's low and mid rise downtown for the most part.

Halifax has its share of low-density suburbs, unfortunately. The density is almost exclusively on the peninsula where the density exists partly because this is where the old city of Halifax was established and developed before the expansion of the density-killing suburbs, and partly because, of course, the limited land of a peninsula means sprawl isn't forever an option.

The downtown is mostly low and midrise buildings; however, some highrises have managed to develop by avoiding the Citadel's viewplanes.

The aerials posted by someone123 will contain several new highrises in a few years.

[Morningrise]

Some Vancouver area pictures I've taken over the last week or so...

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Yeah, it's beautiful. Sometimes I wish a place like that was in my blood so that I could really live there, and have the same strength of belonging and see my identity reflected in the place to the same extent I do here.

I'd love to feel part of a Quebec City, or a Montreal, or a Calgary, or a Vancouver... enough to really live there. But I'm just too attached to home. I'd feel like I abandonned my family for another one. Doesn't matter if its better in all the ways that matter to me... I'd just feel guilty.

I definitely understand that. I feel much that way about Saskatoon, having spent most of my life there it just feels like "home" to me in a way that nowhere else does. Although I have to say I do feel very much at home in Vancouver as well, just in a different way. But there are many other parts of Canada that are just awesome and I love visiting and would enjoy spending more time there, but I don't think I could ever settle down or consider them "home" like that.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Halifax is quite dense, but it's sure not a city with much in the way of height. It's low and mid rise downtown for the most part.

There is a trade-off between having taller buildings and redeveloping more underused land. The city's planning rules limit most areas to shorter buildings, and there is effectively an 80-90 meter height limit downtown, although other areas could theoretically have taller buildings.

I think this is fine. There is only so much demand for new space and there is a lot of land that is underused, particularly when you start to consider outer parts of the urban core. Halifax would be a much better city if all the holes along Gottingen Street were filled with 8 or 10 storey buildings. I'm not sure the difference between a 20, 30, or 40 storey apartment building downtown would be as significant.

[Nouvellecosse]

I just want one new tallest downtown, and then I'll resign myself to infill.

[RyeJay]

Originally Posted by someone123

There is a trade-off between having taller buildings and redeveloping more underused land. The city's planning rules limit most areas to shorter buildings, and there is effectively an 80-90 meter height limit downtown, although other areas could theoretically have taller buildings.

I think this is fine. There is only so much demand for new space and there is a lot of land that is underused, particularly when you start to consider outer parts of the urban core. Halifax would be a much better city if all the holes along Gottingen Street were filled with 8 or 10 storey buildings. I'm not sure the difference between a 20, 30, or 40 storey apartment building downtown would be as significant.

I agree with you that currently the "ban" on height in Halifax isn't too much of an issue when you consider the entire city.

The downtown, however, is held back by several layers of height restrictions. Viewplanes slice up most of the developable land in the core and stunt development to lowrises -- when clearly, developers have been seeking more.

Although Halifax, broadly, has much land to redevelop, the downtown does not.
After our current stock of proposed, approved and u/c projects are complete, the downtown is almost done. Maxed out. Built to the limit.

I wonder what the implications will be. By the end of next decade, I think it could be a reality that we'll have to face.

[SignalHillHiker]

Could be good news. It could force the urbanization of the adjacent suburbs, more mixed-use infill, etc. All my relatives in Lower Sackville and Bedford would probably flee to Truro.

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by Morningrise

I definitely understand that. I feel much that way about Saskatoon, having spent most of my life there it just feels like "home" to me in a way that nowhere else does. Although I have to say I do feel very much at home in Vancouver as well, just in a different way. But there are many other parts of Canada that are just awesome and I love visiting and would enjoy spending more time there, but I don't think I could ever settle down or consider them "home" like that.

It just takes time, I have lived in Ontario for nearly a decade and it's only now having that familiar feeling of home. How long have you lived in Vancouver for?