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Originally Posted by destroycreate
Ok so Montreal looks like a NA urbanist's wet dream. So walkable, dense, and love the row house architecture. Great thread.
Canadians, don't get mad at me for this question, but is Montreal a solidly middle class/lower middle class city? While it looks clean, it doesn't scream glam or wealth being Canada's second city. It looks pretty gritty and of a certain time (meaning, outside of the really old buildings, it's giving 1970s/early 1980s boom). It doesn't appear as though a ton of mega corporations or affluence is concentrated there, the way a second city in the US would (Chicago, LA, etc.).
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Quote:
Originally Posted by destroycreate
Ok so Montreal looks like a NA urbanist's wet dream. So walkable, dense, and love the row house architecture. Great thread.
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Think of Montreal as a close relative to Philly, Brooklyn, Baltimore and other US east coast cities in terms of urban aesthetics. Middle class/working class townhouse neighbourhoods and swankier townhouses and mansions in adjacent richer neighbourhoods. Until the 2000's, Montreal was a city that had experienced a series of political and economical declines and as such has kept a certain grittiness to this day.
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