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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 7:28 AM
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Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 8:01 AM
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I know where it is and I love it. Still though everytime sombody posts an picture from a Birdseye point of view I cringe a bit. Vancouver is awesome and looks beautiful from a street view and from a mountain top but for some reason the view shown in that last image is just not flattering. Never has been never will.
That comment wasn't directed towards you.
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 9:24 AM
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 6:47 PM
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From last winter.

[IMG]Toronto Skyline by Paul Boudreau, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]Tempora by Paul Boudreau, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 7:13 PM
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Montreal is giving Toronto a run for the money on the construction front. I don't think I've ever seen that in my years on this forum. Crazy!!
     
     
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Harbour Air x Harlem Globetrotters
by jenn chan, on Flickr Taken on February 22, 2016


Harbour Air x Harlem Globetrotters
by jenn chan, on Flickr Taken on February 22, 2016


Harbour Air x Harlem Globetrotters
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Harbour Air x Harlem Globetrotters
by jenn chan, on Flickr Taken on February 22, 2016
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 7:16 PM
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Love those aerials of DT Vancouver! Gorgeous!















     
     
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 7:33 PM
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Those vancouver shots pretty much made me jizz in my pants.

They almost look like a SimCity Game. So many mid and high rises everywhere, beach, ocean, marina, parks... so much to like
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 7:57 PM
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i've never seen kingsway from that angle. it's acutually my favourite shot in that post
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 8:00 PM
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i've never seen kingsway from that angle. it's acutually my favourite shot in that post
Me too. What a cool angle of Kingsway.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 8:04 PM
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Yeah it looks Montrealish. I did not realize the area was so dense.
     
     
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Love those aerials of DT Vancouver! Gorgeous!
hurfa durfa mississauga

I like that it's even the same photographer
     
     
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Could be something to do with the ugly buildings and the bleak streetscape, I'm guessing. To be fair, the composition doesn't do the photograph any favours. It's a hideous mess. Looks like a pseudo-futuristic hellscape. Where is it?
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You've got me mixed up with another poster. I don't do hyperbole. Vancouver isn't my kind of city, but I've never referred to it as a "hell hole."
You made these comments two weeks apart. To be clear I dont care what your opinion is of vancouver (or anywhere else). But I call out bull shit when I see it.

You are probably going to say but I didnt know the picture was vancouver....again I'm gonna have to call bs (if you use that exvcuse) the picture has science world in it sky train in it and the labeled van city building in it.

Anyhow not looking for an argument. Just pointing out some bs in my opinion.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 8:50 PM
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People complain about Vancouver having too many glass towers but I swear most of that shot is still concrete.

Canadian skylines are very brutalistic in general, save for maybe Montreal and QC.

The West End is like a weird mix of Toronto's Annex and San Fran.
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Anyhow not looking for an argument. Just pointing out some bs in my opinion.

To be fair "Hellscape" and "Hellhole" are two different things.
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 9:24 PM
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You made these comments two weeks apart. To be clear I dont care what your opinion is of vancouver (or anywhere else). But I call out bull shit when I see it.

You are probably going to say but I didnt know the picture was vancouver....again I'm gonna have to call bs (if you use that exvcuse) the picture has science world in it sky train in it and the labeled van city building in it.

Anyhow not looking for an argument. Just pointing out some bs in my opinion.
Someone, can't find the post for some reason, accused me of calling cities "hellholes." I've never done that. The photo in question that I said looked like a "pseudo-futuristic hellscape" was this shit sandwich here:



That you and other Vancouver posters are tripping over yourselves to conflate a comment about one part of a city with the city as a whole is really confounding. I've seen shots of nice parts of Vancouver, and I've even commented on them as such. Do you really need to be reassured that way?

The hyper-defensiveness and Marie Antoinette-like hysterics to any criticism of Vancouver is a reliable trend on this forum. Canadians are special snowflakes who are easily wounded by unflattering attention, but the Vancouver crew here take it to the next level. Which is rather ironic, given how tropical and/or Mediterranean it supposedly is there.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 9:27 PM
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Montreal is giving Toronto a run for the money on the construction front. I don't think I've ever seen that in my years on this forum. Crazy!!
If you look at the database, that is just simply not the case. Here is the number of UC high rises by CMA for cities with 10 or more UC...

Toronto - 156
Vancouver - 47
Montreal - 43
Calgary - 35
Kitchener - 16
Edmonton - 14
Halifax - 13
Ottawa-Gatineau - 11


http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=71875279
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 9:36 PM
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If you look at the database, that is just simply not the case. Here is the number of UC high rises by CMA for cities with 10 or more UC...

Toronto - 156
Vancouver - 47
Montreal - 43
Calgary - 35
Kitchener - 16
Edmonton - 14
Halifax - 13
Ottawa-Gatineau - 11


http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=71875279
Interesting, well, this is the closest I've ever seen them get.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 26, 2016, 9:45 PM
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Impressive showing by Kitchener... I wouldn't have guessed it would be so high up there.
     
     
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