Post some pictures of your city! II

[Hali87]

The Hydrostone is actually a lot like what you just described, and incidentally it's one of the only parts of the city with back lanes. It was actually built between the wars, so I'm not sure if that counts as pre- or post-war (or neither).


Livingstone Place, Hydrostone by Brian Grant-Paul, on Flickr


No Entry by Paul, on Flickr


Hydrostone House by David Murray, on Flickr


There's also the odd side/dead-end streets that developed with unique townhouses. These are often juxtaposed with modernist apartment buildings, with varying degrees of gracefulness:

https://goo.gl/maps/yewvtaK7JBs
https://goo.gl/maps/rPpp4iK2oP22
https://goo.gl/maps/KqZ6q2UmD1n
https://goo.gl/maps/c2bFjCArZMT2
https://goo.gl/maps/HKWRYiMHar32


I think this is the narrowest street downtown:

https://goo.gl/maps/4LFZdtJdo8m


Most of the Peninsula (especially the intact pre-war neighbourhoods) tends to feel pretty intimate on the residential streets, although most aren't quite as narrow as the examples I posted (the second last of the residential google maps links is about standard street width for most of the peninsula's side streets)

There are also narrow streets outside the main core:

https://goo.gl/maps/VCFaAQXtGTt
https://goo.gl/maps/XNj29vXPXyJ2
https://goo.gl/maps/BKCeePGP7jQ2

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by shappy

^^ The corner of Falkland and Maynard has that going on. Great shot.

Nouvellecosse, I'm not asking about type of housing but more about if Halifax has streets that are very narrow (i.e. with an intimate scale) with housing on them (rather than just back lanes). But if there are commercial streets like this as well, then just as cool.

I realise that, I was just explaining why I was unsure initially.

But really, we don't have many really narrow streets. Personally I wish there were more as I too enjoy that type of environment. There's quite a few that are "ok" but none really awesome in that respect.

Here are a few spots though.

https://goo.gl/maps/K36JqwASqox

https://goo.gl/maps/hEZ6jr5rc6r

https://goo.gl/maps/yyVSeuxA5g82

https://goo.gl/maps/RAYkmYkmMT42

https://goo.gl/maps/kPWtgrhHyNQ2

https://goo.gl/maps/4XHddpTpNdk

[Nouvellecosse]

Hmm, it seems 87 posted much better examples so you can safely disregard my post. lol

[Hali87]

There are also a few modernist neighbourhoods in Halifax that I find do this quite well:

Cowie Hill
Clayton Park
Convoy Place

Some of the public housing projects have interesting streetscapes:

Greystone 2
Uniacke Square 2

[Nouvellecosse]

^ I actually love all those modernist streetscapes, perhaps even more than the historic ones. They'd be perfect if they weren't set back so far from the street with so much unnecessary lawn. That sort of takes away from the urban feeling.

[shappy]

Those are great, thanks Hali87. Moran and Church definitely fit the description, Nouvellecosse. I also like the modernist examples but agree about the scale - Georgian/Victorian residential streets are far more likely to pull off the intimacy.

Can't help but comment that Uniacke Square resembles a lot of what we have here for housing projects. Pretty decent, I guess.

[someone123]

The little neighbourhood around Moran/June/Sarah/West/Princess Place is interesting. There are some small lanes and paths in that area that aren't captured on streetview.

May Street is another little stretch of rowhouses, a bit farther north.

Unfortunately a lot of narrow and crooked streets in downtown Halifax have been deliberately widened or have disappeared completely. On Upper Water Street you can still get a small glimpse of what the area between Buckingham and Cogswell would have looked like layout-wise: https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.65034...7i13312!8i6656

Originally Posted by Drybrain

This used to be a street: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ar...f9312d!6m1!1e1

[Hali87]

Originally Posted by shappy

Those are great, thanks Hali87. Moran and Church definitely fit the description, Nouvellecosse. I also like the modernist examples but agree about the scale - Georgian/Victorian residential streets are far more likely to pull off the intimacy.

Can't help but comment that Uniacke Square resembles a lot of what we have here for housing projects. Pretty decent, I guess.

Alexandra Park seemed a lot like Uniacke Square. The row of houses in the second streetview I posted of Uniacke Square has also always reminded me of Toronto - the bay-and-gable motif is much more reflective of Toronto than Halifax. I think most of the public housing in both cities was built back when those kinds of projects were largely federal.

[SignalHillHiker]

We have similar modern neighbourhoods but ours somehow look cheaper. Maybe it's the lack of trees, etc.

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A little tour of some recent pics from each province...

NL

December 12, 2015 by R C, on Flickr

December 13, 2015 by R C, on Flickr

NS

halifax lights 2 by Angie Raftus McLellan, on Flickr

IMG_1209 by Vincent Young, on Flickr

PEI

Charlottetown, PEI by Craigford, on Flickr

Charlottetown, PEI by Craigford, on Flickr

NB

A Night In Saint John by Aymeric Gouin, on Flickr

IMG_1093 by Michael Fulghum, on Flickr

QC

DSC_0975 by Laliberte Jycelin, on Flickr

Quebec City Christmas [5616x3744] by Antonio Max, on Flickr

ON

CN Tower #rainbow! by Tom Henheffer, on Flickr

Train to nowhere by Brian Copeland, on Flickr

MB

Winnipeg Police downtown headquarters by Stan Milosevic, on Flickr

Winnipeg Kissed by Fog by Sheldon Emberly, on Flickr

SK

Pair of Cranes at Night by Gerry Marchand, on Flickr

Saskatoon by Michael Bergen, on Flickr

AB

Edmonton Under Flurries - pano by Jeff Wallace, on Flickr

The Peace Bridge iand Calgary in late sunset by Michael Perkins, on Flickr

BC

Vancouver Bridges by Evan Leeson, on Flickr

Vancouver 0731 BC web by Damon west, on Flickr

[Rumors]

My pics. ,,,,,,

[Martin Mtl]

L2140351 by Athena Gala on flickr
L2140384 by Athena Gala on flickr


L2140375 by Athena Gala on flickr


L2140369 by Athena Gala on flickr


L2140367
by Athena Gala on flickr


L2140356
by Athena Gala on flickr


L2140346 by Athena Gala on flickr


Montreal City by Liwei Shi on flickr


Montreal City
by Liwei Shi on flickr

[Klazu]

Did night owl skiing on Cypress Mountain last evening. Amazing conditions with temperatures below 0 degrees and lots of nice light powder snow. Snow line was at around 800 meters and above that it was a winter wonderland. You could definitely tell that they had just received a 75cm dump in just 24 hours!



Winter wonderland





Small coulds over the Cypress bowl.



Peak chair is open and snow is terrific.



On top of Mount Stracthan.





I have already taken Wednesday off to go hit some slopes up in Whistler! Weather should be sunny with lots of pow!

[Dr Awesomesauce]

^Jerk!!!!

[DSC]

what program to you use to draw the diagrams?

[Brizzy82]

some recent Peg shots off Instagram



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[Pinus]

Excellent pics of Peg City Brizzy82, as usual

[SignalHillHiker]

Gorgeous WPG scenes.

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Another little shot across the East.

• Video Link

NL

terre-neuve by Roxanne Bourdages, on Flickr

terre-neuve8 by Roxanne Bourdages, on Flickr

(Corner Brook)

path around the pond by Heather Butler, on Flickr

NS

IMG_2364-2 by Jessica Conrad, on Flickr

Sicilian Pizza by Doug Currie, on Flickr

(Sydney)

Sydney, Nova Scotia by Judy Baxter, on Flickr

PEI

Charlottetown, PEI by Craigford, on Flickr

Charlottetown City in Prince Edward Island, Canada by Jean Duc, on Flickr

NB

Moncton, New Brunswick by Craigford, on Flickr

Moncton, New Brunswick by Craigford, on Flickr

QC

Old Quebec City street by Charles O'Neill, on Flickr

Old Quebec City by andrea AMADO, on Flickr

(Saguenay, I think)

Clement Décembre by DT*PHOTO, on Flickr

[SkahHigh]

^great pics.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Old Quebec City by andrea AMADO, on Flickr

I was looking very seriously at buying that building on the right hand side with the yellow windows a few months ago, but we ultimately decided to pass.

It got sold since then. I wasn't really fond of that empty huge commercial unit (the four residential apts were fine, but you almost need to run some type of retail business yourself in the commercial unit for such a building to make financial sense), so that was kind of a deal-breaker.

Here's the listing.
http://www.epeladeau.com/fr/commerci...tml#proprietes

I would've LOVED to possess a pre-1759 building (which this is). That thing was built while this was New France, and it's still there. I find that absolutely fascinating.

[SignalHillHiker]

Gorgeous. And I understand, yeah. I couldn't live in a part of town that was build post-1949 - and not just because that's also beyond any residential construction era here that's at all urban.

I'd never, ever have been able to recognize the two buildings were the same based on the picture from my post. Good eye, assuming it's not a very, very obvious street.