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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
Wow, I wish the Maritimes had an area that dense!
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Originally Posted by lio45
It's not even that desirable and still pretty cheap. I also think St-Jean-Baptiste is a more dense neighborhood (and also better located, and nicer architecturally).
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I was actually going to say that St-Sauveur reminds me of the building stock of the "poor" old sides of Halifax and Saint John, where you also find a mix of modest old 2-3 storey buildings. I think it's also the poorer side of old Quebec City whereas areas like St-Jean-Baptiste were ritzier when first developed.
St-Jean-Baptiste is as you say more impressive and harder to find an analogue to in the Maritimes, not as far as density goes but in terms of consistent heritage preservation and quality.
It's been a few years since I've been to Quebec City; I may head back this summer. It's interesting to contrast it with Halifax from an urban planning perspective, because parts of both cities started in a similar place but heritage preservation has been much stronger in Quebec City. Halifax is just now getting enough nice new buildings that some areas are more vibrant and impressive than they would have been had they been preserved in 1950. Then again, that's a bit of a false trade-off because parts of the city could have been preserved while others could have been opened up even more to development. There are also parts of Quebec City that are just nicer because the province seems to invest (proportionally much) more money into having nicer legislature grounds, etc.
Quebec City's also not a perfectly-preserved place. It feels a bit like there were some planning mishaps in the 1960's and 70's before people decided to pull the plug on large-scale development in the old core. There's a highway interchange that caused some damage and there are some office towers. The relative scale of those redevelopments was smaller though.
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