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Originally Posted by dc_denizen
yeah...thing about Quebec, an un-celebrated city like Talinn or Riga does what Quebec City does and more. I find the greatest uniqueness in what a North American city can offer in the context of its own continent, not in a city that reproduces on a small scale what one can see most anywhere in Europe.
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Yes, well Québec City at thé outset was built like colonial cities in the first US states. No more, no less. There is a French architectural vocabulary mixed with British features over time like Montreal and other towns in Quebec. Riga and Talinn were no less imitative than Quebec City in building their environment.
Boston and Philly lifted Georgian architecture from their English context of origin but generated some inventive measures over centuries of evolution.