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Old Posted Apr 13, 2021, 4:29 PM
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Between the mountains and the towers and the impressive infill, Western Canada manages to occasionally pack some of the most brutal residential vernacular ever conceived.


They look like warehouses from above, but the actual on-the-ground experience isn't so bad. They're basically like a clumsier version of LA's Dingbats: https://goo.gl/maps/H72kPFNPzdoup4yX8

Slightly nicer versions:
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https://goo.gl/maps/HZCc41cHax9wNxbn8
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Old Posted Apr 13, 2021, 5:02 PM
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It's still preferable to the soul less, mind numbing glass condo at the other end of the street. 16 of those shabby low rises or 16 of those sterile towers? I'd probably take the former.



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You really need to learn a few more adjectives.
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Driving around Quebec (City), you get the sense that the place is quite a bit larger than its population would suggest. Perhaps it is the density in certain parts. Perhaps it is the numerous freeways on both sides of the river, complete with interchanges. The massive investments in infrastructure connote a far larger city.

London, despite having more than 500K in the metro, feels like a city of half that size given (ironically) the ubiquity of sprawl and the lack of freeways. KW is somewhere between the two, more for the freeways than for the built environment.
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I've been uploading them via www.imgbb.com

Copy and paste the insta post's url into their uploader and off you go.
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Old Posted Apr 13, 2021, 8:47 PM
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incredible how one project transformed Saskatoon so much.. it's like a whole new city. Hope this pandemic ends soon so I can finally visit Saskatchewan.
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^^^ Ya and one tower sent Edmonton to the next level no pun intended.
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Old Posted Apr 13, 2021, 11:39 PM
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Driving around Quebec (City), you get the sense that the place is quite a bit larger than its population would suggest. Perhaps it is the density in certain parts. Perhaps it is the numerous freeways on both sides of the river, complete with interchanges. The massive investments in infrastructure connote a far larger city.

London, despite having more than 500K in the metro, feels like a city of half that size given (ironically) the ubiquity of sprawl and the lack of freeways. KW is somewhere between the two, more for the freeways than for the built environment.
True. I've always thought that the way it's built, Quebec city's actual urban sprawl with much more densification and/or infill, could easy support a 1 million people city.
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I've been uploading them via www.imgbb.com

Copy and paste the insta post's url into their uploader and off you go.
Cool, thanks for the link. I'll have to remember that!
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Quebec City definitely feels larger than its population would suggest. The overbuilt infrastructure has a lot to do with that. But there's also something about the way it mixes density with a very decentralized form. You have the old part of the city which is very dense and lively, but then you see the high-rises in Ste-Foy, or the sprawl heading out to the mountains up north, and kind of get tricked into thinking you're in a much bigger place.
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Quebec City definitely feels larger than its population would suggest. The overbuilt infrastructure has a lot to do with that. But there's also something about the way it mixes density with a very decentralized form. You have the old part of the city which is very dense and lively, but then you see the high-rises in Ste-Foy, or the sprawl heading out to the mountains up north, and kind of get tricked into thinking you're in a much bigger place.
Indeed! I could also add the city's topography that in some parts of the city allows us to see a large part of the urban sprawl at a single glance which is not possible in a city where the terrain is completely flat
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It's still preferable to the soul less, mind numbing glass condo at the other end of the street. 16 of those shabby low rises or 16 of those sterile towers? I'd probably take the former.
You really need to learn a few more adjectives.
Let me help, here's a few more to describe those low rises, (thanks to Google).

"run down, down at heel, scruffy, uncared-for, neglected, dilapidated, in disrepair, ramshackle, tumbledown, dingy, seedy, slummy, insalubrious, squalid, sordid, mean, wretched, miserable, crummy, scuzzy, tacky, grungy, shambly, beat-up, grotty, shacky, well worn, worn, old, worn out, threadbare, moth-eaten, mangy, ragged, frayed, tattered, battered, decrepit, having seen better days, falling apart at the seams, faded, dowdy, dirty, grubby, tatty, ratty, the worse for wear, raggedy."
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You really need to learn a few more adjectives.
Oh come on, the ones I used weren't that hard. I dumbed it down as much as I could.

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Let me help, here's a few more to describe those low rises, (thanks to Google).

"run down, down at heel, scruffy, uncared-for, neglected, dilapidated, in disrepair, ramshackle, tumbledown, dingy, seedy, slummy, insalubrious, squalid, sordid, mean, wretched, miserable, crummy, scuzzy, tacky, grungy, shambly, beat-up, grotty, shacky, well worn, worn, old, worn out, threadbare, moth-eaten, mangy, ragged, frayed, tattered, battered, decrepit, having seen better days, falling apart at the seams, faded, dowdy, dirty, grubby, tatty, ratty, the worse for wear, raggedy."
If he didn't understand the words I used he's not going to understand those. And btw, replacing shabby with something new doesn't equate to a satisfactory result. Vancouver is going to be stuck with that new condo tower for the next 60+ years. It's just not good enough. Sometimes no change is better than what replaces it.
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