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Old Posted Feb 10, 2012, 8:06 AM
ambiguoustraveller ambiguoustraveller is offline
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I agree with many of these points, but there is one way (besides sprawl) that makes Seattle feel "bigger" to me: the simple fact that it has several very tall skyscrapers downtown. Vancouver is only just starting to get over some of its seriously restrictive height limits, so many of its highrises can seem rather rinky-dink by comparison to Seattle's. While the height of a few towers is hardly a describer of "bigness" or even "urbanity", it does make Seattle feel more "big city" in certain ways to me. Especially since these towers are office towers, and so many of Vancouver's are condos. That being said, I would take Vancouver's forest of mid-sized highrises any day over a few very talls ones and a lot of sprawl everywhere else. I just wish we could work some more on getting over our height limits.
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