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Old Posted Aug 4, 2020, 10:29 PM
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with all due respect, Mississauga is an actual city by definition and in how it functions. It was a bedroom community at one point. Insulting would be to insinuate that being compared to Mississauga is insulting and it's not fair that the city gets bashed so much imho. I do agree however, Calgary is most definitely on another level.
I'm always going to be a big defender of the city, shortcomings and all. Now if someone had compared Calgary to lets say Laval, Markham, Niagara Falls.. or Kanata.. then I'd be more inclined to be insulted if I was a Calgarian.
Mississauga... "We're getting there"

It's incorporated as a city but that's about as far as its "cityness" goes. It's a suburb by any other function - one that just happens to have above-average employment figures because it's located around the airport. Mississauga would not exist as it does without Toronto.



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Port Credit is more urban than downtown Calgary; yet it's not very urban at all.

Which part of Port Credit looks anything like this? https://goo.gl/maps/uithyca26W29pHD8A
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CIBC's are invariably soul-sucking
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It's incorporated as a city but that's about as far as its "cityness" goes. It's a suburb by any other function - one that just happens to have above-average employment figures because it's located around the airport. Mississauga would not exist as it does without Toronto.






Which part of Port Credit looks anything like this? https://goo.gl/maps/uithyca26W29pHD8A
Or this?

https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.03804...7i13312!8i6656
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All Canadian big banks are. At least CIBC doesn't subject us to the horrible crime of fluorescent blue, green and orange signs plastered over stately heritage buildings.
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All Canadian big banks are. At least CIBC doesn't subject us to the horrible crime of fluorescent blue, green and orange signs plastered over stately heritage buildings.

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Exactly what I was referring to in the maps and graphics thread.
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Of course I was joking about Port Credit, but today driving around London's residential neighbourhoods London does feel bigger and more urban than Calgary if you take away the office towers.
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Of course I was joking about Port Credit, but today driving around London's residential neighbourhoods London does feel bigger and more urban than Calgary if you take away the office towers.
London has potential. It will always have potential. And it still still have potential in two decades. They don't intend to tap into any of it.
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London needs a second university: perhaps an arts college downtown. It needs thousands of 4-6 storey apartment buildings filling in all the parking lots. It is currently sprawling like crazy but even the new suburbs feel more urban than the ones in KW-C - probably because the grid street network feels denser.
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I cannot comprehend how anyone thought it would be a good idea to put that fascia sign partially over top of the inscription.
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I cannot comprehend how anyone thought it would be a good idea to put that fascia sign partially over top of the inscription.
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Of course I was joking about Port Credit, but today driving around London's residential neighbourhoods London does feel bigger and more urban than Calgary if you take away the office towers.
I'm genuinely curious about which London neighbourhoods feel bigger and more urban than Calgary. Would like to check them out on Google Maps.
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I don't mean commercial strips but rather endless blocks of Victorian homes.
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London doesn't feel more urban but certainly more intimate. Walking along leafy streets is far more pleasurable than walking beside glass boxes. This helped in London by not having any wide streets or freeways with alienates one neighbourhood from another.

Glass boxes may add density but, especially when they are built by tearing down older human scale homes, create a sterile and alienating environment.
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Alas London has plenty of unbecoming, pedestrian-unfriendly, wide arterial streets (Wonderland, etc.), but thankfully none in the core. The older neighborhoods of London (Old North, Wortley, etc.) are really nice places for walking.
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I don't mean commercial strips but rather endless blocks of Victorian homes.
Appreciate the clarification but, personally, don't agree that the sole or most important measure of a city's urbanity is the number of blocks of Victorian homes. Anyway...
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^It's not just the blocks of Victorian homes but also the random corner shops, narrow street widths and narrow street frontages. Calgary may have more towers but they're mostly mediocre anti-urban environments. I was also surprised by Windsor - it feels more urban than Mississauga, Brampton, Oshawa, K-W, Guelph, 90% of Calgary etc. It is still dominated by the car but it has miles of 1-3 storey CRU, Victorian housing and industry.
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I have seen the first, second and last of those during my time here in Alberta!

I honestly thought that the second one was part of a set for a TV show or movie. The "Cash Casino" thing really seems strange. I can't remember the exact locations but I one of the really ugly ones was in Red Deer and another in Calgary.

After having spent some time in Calgary...it reminds me a lot of Mississauga. Although I'd say that Mississauga is somewhat more attractive looking and may even have more skyscrapers than Calgary today. Does anybody agree?
Cash Casino in Calgary and Red Deer have the same owner. It does look like a set now that you mention it lol!

As for the Mississauga comparison I can’t tell if you’re joking or serious.
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Having crossed the Prairies twice in the last 5 months, I totally agree. On my first crossing (first time NOT crossing the continent through the USA - thanks Covid ) I was shocked by the ugliness. Everything seems utilitarian and no one cares about aesthetics in architecture.

(These observations predate the Maple Creek conversation, if you can believe that. I just didn't bring them up on this forum back in March.)
Are you referring to the entire prairies or just Calgary?

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It's incorporated as a city but that's about as far as its "cityness" goes. It's a suburb by any other function - one that just happens to have above-average employment figures because it's located around the airport. Mississauga would not exist as it does without Toronto.






Which part of Port Credit looks anything like this? https://goo.gl/maps/uithyca26W29pHD8A
Politically, a number of services are also provided by the upper tier Regional Municipality of Peel. McCallion dreamed of a similar amalgamation as Toronto with Peel being renamed City of Mississauga.
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