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Old Posted Jan 17, 2014, 6:39 AM
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That's really cool! I had no idea Kanata had a skyline! Thanks for that.


Another view of the University of Calgary...


http://www.silverhorn.ca/area/calgary.php
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where is kanata?
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It's a former city, now incorporated into the city of Ottawa in the southwest area of the city. It has a population of about 110 000.
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Southern Calgary, everything south of 25 Avenue.


Southern Calgary by Chadillaccc, on Flickr



Northwest Calgary


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Love that giant UFO cloud hovering over the city in the first pic!
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I think that's the reflection of a ceiling light...
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I think that's the reflection of a ceiling light...
It looks like one of these!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/p...ormations.html
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Here's a photo of Metrotown poking through the clouds. The two taller towers with the cranes are Sovereign and Metroplace.


City in the Clouds - Metropolis Towers by anthonymaw, on Flickr
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Judging by the set up I would say it's a light reflecting in a double pain window. The geometry and double focus of it are too perfect.
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Sure, some of those highway-esque roads may have sidewalks.

I often walked to school and back, and it was primarily on Britannia from around Mavis to Creditview, and there was no sidewalk; just a gravel patch next to the small shoulder lane. The public transport bus to the school was absolutely horrible and unreliable.

Things may have changed. But really, the main point is that Mississauga is purely a suburb and you pretty much must have a car to get around the 'city.'

Toronto's version of Newark or Oakland is Hamilton -- a real edge city. It's an actual city that sits on the edge of the GTA.
Transit ridership per capita, 2012

Hamilton: 21.796M riders / 483k population = 45.13 per capita
Mississauga: 34.761M riders / 743k population = 46.79 per capita

https://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres...PMPResults.pdf
http://www7.mississauga.ca/documents...tConverted.pdf

And no, Hamilton is not an edge city. Hamilton is itself a central city, like Toronto. "Edge city" refers only to suburbs, like Mississauga.
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Hamilton has pretty horrible transit usage. Hopefully that will change soon.
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That's really cool! I had no idea Kanata had a skyline! Thanks for that.


Another view of the University of Calgary...


http://www.silverhorn.ca/area/calgary.php
A fairly old view it seems like ... many of those parking lots and fields are now buildings.
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Metrotown (Burnaby, BC) last summer.


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Damn ! 10/10 !
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This deserves to be in the Canada too...

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Stoney Creek (Hamilton Ontario) by Flar
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That picture of B.C. terrifies me. I have no idea why but I always feel like I could roll off the face of the earth when it's so side and open like that.
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Was playing around with google earth, and they've finally got a 3d scan of the Vancouver region... and all it's skylines Who needs photos anymore lol



Downtown Vancouver


Ambleside


Lonsdale, with downtown in the distance


Lonsdale again


Metrotown


New Westminster Downtown


New Westminster Uptown


Broadway, viewed from False Creek


Kerrisdale, with Vancouver in background


Richmond, with Vancouver International airport across the river to right


Brentwood, with Metrotown in the distance


Edmonds, with Metrotown and Brentwood in the distance


Lougheed Town Centre


Coquitlam Town Centre


Port Moody, with Coquitlam in distance
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