This is definitely NOT Seoul. But where is it?
 

Came across this page about Seoul and it was fine until I saw the accompanying picture:

:haha:

So we know that aint Seoul...but does anyone know which city that actually is?

Regina, Saskatchewan

Thanks. I knew someone would have the answer.:D

I hadnt a clue.

Seoul / Regina.....pretty close.....hah

haha thats a good one

Well, to be sure, Regina looks very pleasant and Im enamored by its apparent low sprawl.

THIS is Seoul, second biggest city in the world, mostly contiguous, highrise metro population of 26 million

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another pic of Seoul. I have got to get there soon and check this place out for myself.

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Haha, love how Regina's skyline got mistaken for Seoul's! :haha:

That being said, like dimondpark, I'm impressed with Regina's skyline and apparant lack of sprawl! :tup:

Aaron (Glowrock)

All mid-sized Canadian downtowns seem to have that pleasant compact arrangement.

I can see my office window in this photo (I'm in the HSBC branded tower of the twin tower development).

Anyway, Regina certainly has its fair share of sprawl in the Canadian sense (fairly tightly packed together SFHs along poorly planned boulevards and cul-de-sacs), but almost none in the American sense (large acreages and exurbs). Its pretty typical of Canadian cities in that sense.

Surprised to see my home town in the picture!

We have a dense downtown and are focusing on densifying it. Everything within a few km of downtown is pretty dense/well designed. Out of that it gets to be pretty sprawly.

We need to Americanize some Canadian cities. Let's add some parking lots downtown, take out a few of those highrises, and add some malls and subdivisions around it.

How is that sprawl? Obviously the city is growing outward, but sprawl is rapacious and unsustainable growth.

If Regina's perimeter growth is pretty tightly packed, then it's probably no less dense than any of the neighborhoods that are closer to the core, except for downtown itself. Looking at satellite images, it seems like neighborhoods are fairly connective within themselves. They pull back from the supergrid streets, but these seems fairly common in Regina, even closer to the center.

I'd prefer to reserve my ire for stuff like Atlanta's sprawl, where neighborhoods are very low-density islands in an ocean of forest. Adjacent developments leave wide swaths of forest in between them with awkwardly-shaped parcels that are more or less impossible to develop. Planners call this "leapfrog development", but that assumes the skipped-over parcels will get filled in. Oftentimes, they can't.

In the Southwest, it's common to hear outward expansion labeled as sprawl, but this isn't quite right either. The new development is fairly dense. The problem is that any population growth - in subdivisions and highrises alike - entails a corresponding increase in water usage, and water is pretty scarce. Now, swimming pools and green-grass lawns are huge water hogs, but that's not an urban planning failure per se, it's a design failure - transplanted Midwesterners expecting the same comfy green lawns they had back in Ohio, and local government that aren't willing to prohibit these water wastes.

Canadian cities have a funny way of appearing in strange places. I have an Austin street map with Edmonton on the cover. And I've seen "Texas" truck commercials talking up Texas, usually Ford, that shows Calgary.

Nope, that's Regina, Saskatchewan.

I warned Regina not to cross the Han River, but did they listen to me?

Oh my God..I never thought about that Seoul could be so huge..:koko:

I am pretty sure that for an alien visiting Earth, both are probably very similar. These earthlings look all the same, btw.