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By that logic, La Defense is Downtown Paris, not the Central City. The Red Square isn't the heart of Moscow, the International Business District is. Tall buildings =/= downtown.
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Well, that is, in my interpretation, the very thing this thread is discussing:
Tall buildings scattered in various neighborhoods == "strong neighborhoods city"
Tall buildings all concentrated downtown, Calgary style == "strong downtown city"
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If Quebec's downtown is merely Vieux-Quebec, I'd agree that it is more of a neighbourhood city, but if it includes the more "functional" downtowns of St-Roch, St-Jean-Baptiste...
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The actual downtown is Vieux-Québec + Parliament Hill. It doesn't include those "outer" residential neighborhoods, even though they're obviously pretty central in the Greater metro area.
edit: seems the official downtown also includes a sliver of lower town that lies west of the "Little Champlain" neighborhood at the foot of the hill.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieux-..._Parlementaire
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and whatever the area around Grand Allee and Bv Rene Levesque is called
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"Parliament Hill" is the official name of this neighborhood, and it's considered part of the downtown.