Best Skyline in Canada ?
Which city has the best skyline in Canada ?
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No city has the best skyline in Canada. The best skylines belong to national parks such as Banff and Jasper.
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Unless natural backdrop is the overarching factor, Toronto.
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I agree with hipster_duck, I refuse to consider a skyline to be anything other than the man-made parts of a city, therefore I voted for Toronto.
Is a '90s Toyota Corolla that happens to be parked in front of gorgeous scenery a more appealing car than a '60s Jag E-Type in a surface parking lot? No, because it's the vehicle we're talking about and that we're supposed to be judging. If you asked which city has the best backdrop, we'd probably vote for some tiny village in the Rockies over anything on your list, but that would be a different question. |
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The line has to be drawn somewhere, and that's where I choose to draw it. For example, while I'd ignore the lake in the case of Toronto (i.e. I'd consider the skyline to be just as good as if, in the classic pic from the water, instead of water in the bottom part of the pic, it was a brownfield, or the world's largest parking lot)... one could argue that BECAUSE the downtown abuts a lake, the tallest and nicest buildings are lakefront, while in the case of a city like, say, Calgary, which can expand in all 360 degrees, the tall buildings will be in the center and you'll likely have a bell curve of shorter and shorter buildings in all directions outwards (which should also get visually cheaper and less flagshippy as we go outwards; less prime locations), therefore you won't have this "wall of the best and nicest tall buildings" effect, which is directly a product of the lake, even if the lake doesn't count for skylines purposes. |
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Unlike a car though, the geography of a city is an immutable characteristic; and the interplay of the built and natural environments isn't something that can just "not count". That doesn't mean that the best natural backdrop = best skyline, of course, but the geographic context does need to be considered along with and how it relates to the buildings. |
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Gotta be Toronto. What I love about most other Canadian skylines, Toronto has more of (i.e. non-glass skyscrapers) - and what I hate, Toronto has less of (i.e. green window condos).
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Toronto.
It's the only one you could reasonably say that is distinctive enough that it would be known worldwide. Largely, that's because of the CN Tower, literally towering over anything else. Montreal and Vancouver have nice backdrops, but they'd be nice backdrops without the city too. Vancouver's city skyline is about the most generic I've seen - it could be 'generic North American city' in a TV show or movie. Oddly enough, when I think of second place, Quebec City comes to mind, probably due to the Chateau Frontenac. But mostly when people think of Canada, they think of places like Banff, Lake Louise, Niagara Falls, etc. etc. etc. |
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I'm thinking it's gotta be Edmonton. Two people from Edmonton can't be wrong!
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You can argue whatever but when it comes to skyline it’s toronto. Duh
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For a fraction of a second I considered Vancouver and even Calgary but then I realised I was trying too hard.
Edmonton? Shame on you... |
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