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Originally Posted by Klazu
Also Brisbane has a motorway terminating on the CBD peninsula, but everything's designed around it. I am also finding Brissy embrace layers in city design a lot more. Several toll tunnels cut through the city, their commuter rail is tunneled and also being expanded. One can only hope for something like this in Vancouver, where the world seems standing still.
I was checking Wikipedia for when many of their tallest towers have been built and several very modern-looking towers are from the early 2010s. Architecture here looks a lot more modern than in Vancouver, which oozes early 2000s in style. Also the variation in height, tower position and spacing make for so much more interesting cityscape, not to mention nighttime lighting!
Vancouver's Downtown is maybe a little more vibrant over a weekend than Brissy's, but their CBD absolutely bustles during weekdays. Brisbane could easily fool one to be a city of 5M, whereas I have always found Vancouver feeling very small in comparison.
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Brisbane likely didn't have the same level of NIMBYism that happened in Vancouver in the 1970s through 2010s, preventing significant growth in the city and shifting it to suburban cores. Vancouver has been held back intentionally until recently. But still, we have hysteria from current NIMBYs over the Broadway Plan and the ODP, so who knows how long this will last.
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