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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
I'm definitely glad to see all the construction and I'm sure it'll improve the street level atmosphere. But honestly they don't seem to improve the skyline, at least from that angle. Yes, Montreal needs infill, but it would also be nice to see the skyline expanded either in terms of height or land area.
Make Les Jardins de Babylone and the Quartier des spectacles office tower 200m and that would improve the skyline from that angle significantly imo.
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As much as I like skyscrapers, I don't think one should plan a city with the skyline in mind. Skyline fascinates us on this forum, but it is very low on any serious urbanist's list of things that improves on the quality of life of a city. And so it should. Montreal doesn't
need to expand its skyline, neither in terms of height or land area. Montreal needs inteligent, well planned, densification, with mostly human scale developpements. The real problem of Montreal is its destructured urban fabric here and there. Too many old contaminated land, too many surface parkings lot. Getting rid of them and using the land to enriched the urban fabric is much, much more important than the skyline.
I know I won't make any friends by saying that, but I think that Toronto would be better off now if it had build tons of midrises everywhere instead of very high towers.