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Old Posted Sep 26, 2017, 12:21 AM
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That's Metrotown in Burnaby. Surrey's downtown area is called Central City.
Mybad....I've seen Surrey before on this site...forgot. Damn I gotta get some sleep.....(Central City....that's interesting for a denomination)
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Old Posted Sep 26, 2017, 1:57 AM
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Metrotown is what you'd expect Surrey to look like if you go by how people in Surrey talk about it. But it has one of the smaller suburban skylines in the metro area.


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Old Posted Oct 8, 2017, 6:22 PM
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North Vancouver basking in the sunset.

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If you can't see Surrey's grid (or Mississauga's cul-de-sacs) then I'm not really sure what to say. Both of them have similar structures of a large grid with typical suburban swirly streets within them, but Surrey's grid utilizes narrower streets with more intersections, whereas Mississauga's is much more heavily reliant on wide boulevards and is more reflective of a typical suburban local-collector-arterial road system. Most of its major streets, which form the grid, have no buildings fronting them.

Street networks are what make places suburban or urban, not the height of their buildings. And while both places have swirly roads within larger grids, Mississauga's grid is clearly just a gridded-version of the large arterials that you find in typical suburbs: wide and without fronting buildings. Surrey may appear heavily suburban at the moment with its low density, but it has a much higher opportunity to urbanize in the future as the bones are already there. Replace the run-down SFHs fronting the main arterials with mid-rise developments and CRUs and all of a sudden its streets are indistinguishable from those in inner-city anywhere. Surrey has an urban skeleton—it is just underdeveloped at the moment. No matter how dense you build Mississauga, it will never be urban.
Is Mississauga requiring that new buildings front the street? A lot of Boulder CO traditionally did, but it's now required and slowly but surely, it's making a difference. But to your point, the street network is probably more favourable to redevelopment work.
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North Vancouver basking in the sunset.

Very unique angle, where was it taken from? Empire Landmark?
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A great angle indeed. Quite a bit of construction happening over there.
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Old Posted Oct 30, 2017, 1:07 AM
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Surrey Central skyline.





Morning fog over Burnaby's Metrotown.

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Nice pics, is that fog recent?
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Old Posted Oct 31, 2017, 11:21 PM
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Yep, it's fog time in Vancouver once again.
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St. Lambert, Quebec (foreground, Longueuil visible in the distance). Image is probably around 10 years old, but the perspective hasn't changed much.


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Yep, it's fog time in Vancouver once again.
Weird, must not be hitting downtown, I've only seen it isolated over the harbour once or twice in the last week.
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Not so many suburban skylines in Montreal area. High density and multi-family housing in Montreal area more in the form of low-rises and mid-rises than high-rise, but maybe it is better that way.
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Weird, must not be hitting downtown, I've only seen it isolated over the harbour once or twice in the last week.
It was burning off really early in the morning.
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Several recent shots of the City of North Vancouver. The last two were taken from the Seabus as it approached Lonsdale Quay.



Nov.3 '17, my pic



Nov.5 '17, my pic



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Nov.5 '17, my pic
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Looking east at the Gilmore/Brentwood skyline in Burnaby as seen from Rupert Station (in Vancouver).



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really loving the last few :-)
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found this one of Brentwood in Vancouver

20171022_103338 by City Of Rain, on Flickr
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Last week a thick fog blanketed over Metro Vancouver for several days.





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Coquitlam Central skyline.







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