Post some pictures of your city! II - Page 156

Martin Mtl · #**3101** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 2:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by lio45

Lol! I wouldn't have said exactly that, nor would I have brought it over to this thread, but now that you got me thinking about it, it's true that many of these pics could've been taken in Laval.

(Contrast it with, say, a typical MonkeyRonin set of downtown Toronto pics, in which none of the pics could possibly be from the suburbs.)

Gee, you really like to add fuel to the fire.

Also, I find that the street pictures in Chad's post have a nice urban feel about them that you would be hard press to duplicate in Laval. They remind me a little of Cartier street in Quebec City, for exemple.

Be nice.

lio45 · #**3102** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 3:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Gee, you really like to add fuel to the fire.

Also, I find that the street pictures in Chad's post have a nice urban feel about them that you would be hard press to duplicate in Laval. They remind me a little of Cartier street in Quebec City, for exemple.

Be nice.

It's been a while since you last went to Laval, right?

Apologies for the small pics, but there are nice river areas for a walk with condo towers along the river... (Laval is really under-represented online, I can't manage to find what I'm looking for, but I know it's there.)

This will have to do:

And there's stuff like this too...

As far as the pics showing only one or two clean/new storefronts and pedestrians, those (as they are without context) could be from Brossard or Laval. Have you left downtown lately?

There's decent commercial activity outside downtown...

The ones showing a bunch of concentrated office buildings, I agree, definitely couldn't. That's why I merely said "many".

And by the way, why would it be bad? It's like if I posted a bunch of pictures of trees and squirrels taken in Central Park... why would I get pissed off if someone pointed out that pics taken in the heart of Manhattan could pass off as having been taken in the countryside?

Any pics of downtown Calgary with a bunch of office buildings in them couldn't pass off as the suburbs. Several of the pics without them, I don't even care where exactly they were taken, could. I don't see why it's such a big deal.

Chadillaccc · #**3103** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 3:13 PM**

What a joke

Hey Lio, why don't you try contributing to this forum for once instead of trolling on Calgary? What a revolutionary idea!

Here are some more photos of Calgary's inner city suburbanity

Between Two Towers by floobie7, on Flickr

September in Calgary by floobie7, on Flickr

Eighth Avenue Place at Night by floobie7, on Flickr

Calgary Tower - New Lighting by floobie7, on Flickr

Sunset Crows by floobie7, on Flickr

1st Street at Night by floobie7, on Flickr

Elbow River in Autumn by floobie7, on Flickr

Autumn Church by floobie7, on Flickr

Towers Peaking Through the Trees by floobie7, on Flickr

Glass and Clouds by floobie7, on Flickr

Barber by floobie7, on Flickr

So Noire by floobie7, on Flickr

Ball by floobie7, on Flickr

Kensington Cool by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

Kirby and Nancy by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

DSC_2807 by eibbor7, on Flickr

DSC_2795 by eibbor7, on Flickr

DSC_2801 by eibbor7, on Flickr

DSC_2806 by eibbor7, on Flickr

DSC_2812 by eibbor7, on Flickr

DSC_2963 by eibbor7, on Flickr

DSC_2971 by eibbor7, on Flickr

DSC_2982 by eibbor7, on Flickr

It is in our hands by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Market Collective by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Collective Concert by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Collective Bridge by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Market Collective by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Collective Fresh by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

lio45 · #**3104** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 3:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

What a joke

Hey Lio, why don't you try contributing to this forum for once instead of trolling on Calgary? What a revolutionary idea!

Come on, even Calgarians have agreed that Sunnyside is a first-generation neighborhood that's still surprisingly low-density considering its central location, and they've offered excuses for it (for example, "in China, they'd already have kicked out the owners and razed the centenarian SFHs, surely you wouldn't expect us to do the same?").

I picked a random street from the map in Sunnyside and it turned out to be a dirt street/alley, FFS!!! DIRT! Seriously.

(Which, FWIW, I found cool, exotic, environmentally-friendly, and refreshing.)

On the other hand, I have to say I'd be hard pressed to name any dirt street I know in Manhattan (and part of the public street network, which I presume those are, correct me if they're private). Or in downtown Toronto. Dirt streets aren't something that are usually seen in modern city cores. Dirt streets/alleys... don't really "scream urban", do they? You'd dare disagree with me there?

To sum it up, it turned out that I was quite correct in my original assertion (that Sunnyside is surprisingly low-density and feels surprisingly suburban for such a central neighborhood), even at least two different Calgarians even agreed with me there, and I'll stand by my original statement. I also stand by my other statement that given the nature of the urban built form of Sunnyside, the Bow river is very unlikely to turn into a canyon with thick walls of office skyscrapers on both sides like the Chicago river for the foreseeable future, and, likely, never.

I stand by those statements and I don't think it's a reason to get pissed off 'cause it's just observing facts. Plus, I'm not even the one who brought up the Chicago river.

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Here are some more photos of Calgary's inner city suburbanity

Most of those pics don't feel suburban at all.

("Elbow River in Autumn", though, reminds me of Laval again

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MolsonExport · #**3105** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 3:38 PM**

ah never mind.

Nouvellecosse · #**3106** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 4:31 PM**

Calgary is newer, smaller, and less dense than Toronto, NY, or Montreal. And otters are smaller, lighter, and furrier than seals, walruses, or whales.

This is something that you just accept. I really don't see how this is much of a topic for discussion....

Chadillaccc · #**3107** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 5:31 PM**

Calgary Skyline by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

Bankers Hall by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

Eighth Avenue Place by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

snake by LUMIN8, on Flickr

surfing the Bow by LUMIN8, on Flickr

Pixel by LUMIN8, on Flickr

BADMOOD by LUMIN8, on Flickr

New Age Books by LUMIN8, on Flickr

A Touch of Europe by LUMIN8, on Flickr

Calgarian · #**3108** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 5:45 PM**

Holy crap, I was being facetious when I posted that comment, give it a rest already!

I absolutely love how this development turned out!

Ashok · #**3109** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 7:11 PM**

Erm, why is there a photo of a snake in the middleo of this page?

Daveography · #**3110** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 8:07 PM**

^ Are you for real? Jesus, some of you guys try too hard to pick on Chad. Let it go.

Calgarian · #**3111** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 8:11 PM**

That was obviously a joke...

Allan83 · #**3112** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 8:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ashok

Erm, why is there a photo of a snake in the middleo of this page?

Maybe that's for the people who think we should wall off our river and kill it and turn it into a dead, ugly, canal. Never!

Ashok · #**3113** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 10:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Daveography

^ Are you for real? Jesus, some of you guys try too hard to pick on Chad. Let it go.

Who on earth is this Chad? (nevermind, I figured it out.)

Well, snakes freak me out. I had some unfortunate encounter with one of them.

I like to jog from my apartment to the summit of mount royal, esp. @ night. The view, and being alone is so wonderful. But now, those jogs are sort of freaky because I got hold of a document that outlines all the different snake species in Mount Royal.

There are a lot of different species, and there are some that are HUGE.

lio45 · #**3114** Posted **Oct 31, 2014, 10:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

Holy crap, I was being facetious when I posted that comment, give it a rest already!

I personally am very OK with these little arguments sometimes triggering more serious conversations (as long as they remain friendly), I think it's part of the interest of the general "Canada" section.

I didn't even know the name of the Sunnyside district/area before that conversation, while I now know a few things about the history of its development...

Why else would you pay visits to this section? You could simply do like many, and like I used to do for my first few years on SSP, and stay in your city's section only. If you come here, it's probably because you're (at least somewhat) interested in viewpoints from far away within the country.