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Originally Posted by worldlyhaligonian
Carrying this forward. Now, I may be biased, but I've lived across Canadian major cities and internationally... Halifax is punching way above its population in terms of urban landscape. It isn't even close... with the next city probably being Montreal or Quebec city.
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Halifax is fairly unique in terms of being an "old" North American city with a 1700s street network in the old parts, Georgian buildings, etc. but then also a lot of post-2010 construction. It also had a relatively large pre-WW2 core that had decayed in parts so there's a relatively large amount of infill potential in medium-density mixed-use areas. In particular the North End was a bit sparse but is really transforming.
Where the city falls flat is that the municipality and province aren't building much of note so, while the city has grown a lot, cultural institutions or infrastructure like transit have only grown incrementally. Halifax needs a good new medium-sized museum or something (e.g., new art gallery, cancelled, or aquarium; there just isn't any significant one on the east coast) and a new form of higher-order transit. It's interesting how even the nicest newer public spaces were built by private developers (e.g., Queen's Marque).
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