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Old Posted Oct 15, 2015, 6:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse View Post
Actually, having a city centre dominated by a handful of large towers kind of does change things. Not if they were in a peripheral area like Canary Wharf or La Defense, but if they were in the centre of the city, I would consider that to no longer be a lowrise city. I mean, even most North American cities consist of a city centre dominated by a handful of large towers with most of the buildings in the city and metro area being lowrises. But of course we're all entitled to our opinions.
Well actually these towers are all in the eastern edge of Part-Dieu, which isn't really the city center. It's closer than La Defense or Canary Wharf, because Lyon is a smaller city, but it's not the shopping/entertainment/tourist part.

The center of Lyon will continue to look like this:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@45.76...8i6656!6m1!1e1
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