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Originally Posted by TSteph9
lol this video is incredible. And yeah the city has changed a lot; I went there 2 years ago for the first time in about 10 years and hardy recognized parts of downtown.
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In retrospect there was a kind of dark age from about 1989-2004. There was tons of construction in the 80's and 2010's, while the city stagnated and became more suburban in the 90's.
Something else I've noticed is that Canada's cities just stack up better against global cities than they used to. Toronto is a significant world city now and Halifax is on par with a bunch of small capital or regional cities (how many of them have a > $1B annual budget?). In another 30 years Canada will have an economy and population similar to the UK or France and its major cities will drive that. It's easy to forget this if you are only using Canadian cities as yardsticks.