Post some pictures of your city! II - Page 497

Rico Rommheim · #**9921** Posted **Sep 30, 2023, 4:21 PM**

Awesome Saskatoon set!

Also, interesting, I never noticed that Saskatoon's skyline was mostly made up of 70's concrete residential towers. Hamilton in the prairies? The Concordia ghetto on the prairies?

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This view reminds me a bit of the topography of St. John’s - but with bigger and less colourful housing - both beautiful.

Geometric Paradise by Andrea Peddle, on Flickr

The coloured houses notwithstanding, St-John's looks like it could be a middle-tier city in Quebec like Sherbrooke (Old stock city built on a hill facing a body of a water, featuring a large and prominent church as it's centrepiece.

bulliver · #**9922** Posted **Sep 30, 2023, 5:01 PM**

Winnipeg summer 2022.

zoomer · #**9923** Posted **Sep 30, 2023, 10:50 PM**

Resharing Echo’s Saskatoon set at the end of the last page as it only was visible for a few hours before being buried on the previous page. Plus it makes a nice back to back companion to Bulliver’s Winnipeg set!

I checked out your photos on Flickr Bulliver, great work! And from many cities across Canada - love it! Your use of vignetting really makes the Legislative buildings pop. I tend to avoid or just lightly use vignetting, but with the time of day and the clear sky it really works here and is making me rethink my editing, lol. Also great street perspective shots and capturing the street level feel - a lot of picture perfect locations!

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Saskatoon in 2023:

someone123 · #**9924** Posted **Oct 2, 2023, 6:55 PM**

Some drone shots of the Spring Garden Road area in Halifax:

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Kilgore Trout · #**9925** Posted **Oct 3, 2023, 9:48 PM**

This may sound weird, but the way Halifax is densifying reminds me of an Asian city. It's very piecemeal without the big block-busting developments you see in Toronto or Vancouver. And the variety of scales and architectural styles is like something you'd see in a Seoul neighbourhood like Hongdae.

The same is also true for many outer borough NYC neighbourhoods like Flushing or Williamsburg. I think it's a good thing.

someone123 · #**9926** Posted **Oct 3, 2023, 11:23 PM**

There is the mix of old and new and a relatively high proportion of narrow street frontage developments that are sometimes fairly tall like The Crane that you can see in the picture above.

There aren't the same land values as in Toronto or Vancouver and many areas have low height limits. The urban fabric is old by North American standards with mixed use, complex land ownership patterns and a lot of small, irregular blocks, but the municipality and province are quite laissez-faire about development compared to other similar cities. Some of the new buildings are bland but some are getting quite good and the infill along, say, Gottingen St is much more substantial than I would have expected. The new projects coming along are a level above what was built over the past few years, and I have noticed that around Gottingen some old features that were lost due to empty lots (like laneways that were next to parking and just felt like a part of the parking before) are coming back.

I'm a bit worried that the Cogswell area won't have that feel and instead will just be a bunch of block-sized towers. Not the end of the world but there's a lot of history they could have drawn on when reconstructing that area. If a similar project were developed in continental Europe they'd probably rebuild some of the old buildings that were torn down.

Kilgore Trout · #**9927** Posted **Oct 3, 2023, 11:51 PM**

I was in Halifax last year for the first time in 20 years and it really gave me a surprisingly big-city vibe despite the small population.

Anyway, here are some random snapshots from the past few days in Montreal.

Klezmer band on the annual Pop Montreal parade through Mile End

Phillips Square

Pop Montreal parade making a stop at Social Club

I have forgotten what street this is

View from the Peck Building roof

The lovely Petro-Can corner near me

kool maudit · #**9928** Posted **Oct 4, 2023, 8:22 AM**

I was in Halifax over the summer and was impressed. It is subtly stitching together a lot of areas that previously didn't contribute much to the overall feel. I know it's a pipe dream (for some reason), but extensive light rail and some judiciously deployed heavy rail could probably make it a top-5 Canadian urban experience. It's very close already. You just don't need millions of people for these things.

kool maudit · #**9929** Posted **Oct 4, 2023, 8:24 AM**

Coming to Halifax from Toronto after a four-year span where I didn't visit North America at all and lost some familiarity with its city-type was instructive.

The difference between something like Quinpool Road and Dundas Street in the Junction, or Gottingen Street and Queen in Leslieville, is really not that big. Streetcars along both Halifax examples would pretty much close the gap. The Toronto streets just go on for longer.

Echoes · #**9930** Posted **Oct 4, 2023, 4:04 PM**

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There we go! Echoes - a refreshing set of Saskatoon photos! Not sure if it’s the different city scale, the cleansing rain followed by the sun in some of those pics or the consistency of one photographer’s perspective (perhaps all three) but those hit good!

Thanks zoomer! Your encouragement got me around to finally uploading these.

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Also, interesting, I never noticed that Saskatoon's skyline was mostly made up of 70's concrete residential towers. Hamilton in the prairies? The Concordia ghetto on the prairies?

The Hammer of the Prairies is much more fitting than the Paris of...

Tone · #**9931** Posted **Oct 5, 2023, 10:17 PM**

Rimouski

MolsonExport · #**9932** Posted **Oct 5, 2023, 11:28 PM**

decent density in Rimouski.

MolsonExport · #**9933** Posted **Oct 5, 2023, 11:30 PM**

speaking of Rimouski, I take it that La Grande Place is all gone?

Tone · #**9934** Posted **Oct 6, 2023, 12:00 AM**

All gone finally! It's replacement project is now aiming to start construction in a few months maybe weeks.

ScreamingViking · #**9935** Posted **Oct 6, 2023, 12:09 AM**

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The Hammer of the Prairies is much more fitting than the Paris of...

I've heard Saskatoon, Regina, and Winnipeg referred to the "Paris of the Prairies" at one time or another. Has that been settled, or was it ever in any doubt and I just don't have a clue?

Wigs · #**9936** Posted **Oct 6, 2023, 12:13 AM**

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I've heard Saskatoon, Regina, and Winnipeg referred to the "Paris of the Prairies" at one time or another. Has that been settled, or was it ever in any doubt and I just don't have a clue?

I always heard Saskatoon was the Paris of the Prairies, Winnipeg was little Chicago, or little Chicago of the North because of its Exchange district boom in the early 20th century

And Regina rhymes with...

Dartguard · #**9937** Posted **Oct 6, 2023, 1:10 AM**

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i always heard saskatoon was the paris of the prairies, winnipeg was little chicago, or little chicago of the north because of its exchange district boom in the early 20th century

and regina rhymes with...

fun!!