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Originally Posted by Commentariat
Canada is good at getting suburban nodes built, but seems to be fairly terrible at making them attractive or interesting. I think it’s because they often choose a parking lot or a field next to an 8 lane highway as the starting point, instead of expanding upon an existing node with better bones. Building giant towers on large podiums doesn’t help either.
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To be fair to Missie, it's a bit mind-boggling that a suburb that previously was basically a shopping centre surrounded by thousands of homes sprawling to infinity, will eventually be home to dozens of scrapers rivalling most NA city skylines.
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mega $3.8 Billion (37 tower) Oxford development is easily the most important as it tries to bring some of the first "real urbanism" to these burbs, as opposed to all the tower/podiums scattered about (nice curvy ones though).
Oxford's development
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And we sometimes forget that
the south-eastern edge of the city is on the lake, another area under-going enormous change like this:
Port Credit’s Bright Water - approved and proposed elements of the $2-billion (3,000-residential-unit project),
include sixty seven acres of land to the city for parks, open space, cultural, and institutional uses.
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