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WhipperSnapper · #41 Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 6:52 AM**

To be fair Mississauga City Centre is still largely undeveloped so its too early to make a call however the ten tower Daniel's project with the worst gimmicky, faux schlock around is an unfortunate legacy.

flar · #42 Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 4:25 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by daniel_t

Great shots. Never seen any other city in the GTA on a forum before. I want to move to Canada when I graduate from College so this is nice to see. Canada and the Toronto area look very nice. Are you planning on posting pics of other cities in the GTA?

Daniel_T

I've already posted photos of many of the cities near the GTA (Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, Hamilton, St. Catharines, Brantford, et al) so eventually I will get to more areas that are part of the GTA itself. So likely a few more GTA tours over the next few months.

raisethehammer · #43 Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 4:51 PM**

brutal....not the pics, the "city".
I love the one about the sidewalk being closed for the winter season. only in sauga.

MolsonExport · #44 Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 5:42 PM**

great pics of a sterile pedestrian wasteland. Epitomized by Hazel's Lane.

DC83 · #45 Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 6:40 PM**

HAHAHAHA love it!
Looks the same every time I'm "downtown" Mississauga: a million cars, ZERO pedestrians!

What a missed opportunity MCC is/was. Pickering CC is based along the same guidelines, but lacks almost any residential. MCC is PACKED with residential, yet still NO pedestrians!? I don't get it!?!

But WOW does MCC ever have an impressive Skyline for a suburb!! Great shots, Flar!

Doady · #46 Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 9:13 PM**

Mississauga "packed with residential"? Most of Mississauga City Centre is UNDEVELOPED VACANT LAND. Just another exxample of people who don't know what the fuck they are talking about.

The closed sidewalk is closed along a driveway that belongs to the mall. It is not a real street. The city NEVER closes sidewalks.

harls · #47 Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 9:16 PM**

It's been close to a decade since I've been to Mississauga. Actually, that's not true if you count a few layovers at Pearson. The skyline looks pretty impressive from an airplane window. Thanks for the tour, Flar.

MolsonExport · #48 Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 11:07 PM**

^It is still the sausage, only larger and longer.

gatt · #49 Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 11:28 PM**

i don't know what to think about this place.but nice photos.

Monetto · #50 Posted **Jan 8, 2008, 2:24 AM**

I thought it was a very accurate portrayal of what MCC is.

It is not the individual pieces of cheap architecture which make it bad, but the way in which they (don't) come together.

raisethehammer · #51 Posted **Jan 8, 2008, 3:32 AM**

yea, I thought it was accurate too.
Doady...give it up. The place blows.

4orty4th · #52 Posted **Jan 8, 2008, 3:59 AM**

Good eye Flar. Also, good discussion folks ... love to see both sides. I would love to see mcc turn into a pedestrian friendly environment. Maybe as Doady insists, it is indeed, but as far as I know it isn't a convenient or friendly pedestrian environment.

Let's just hope that in time it will become one. I don't see how building extreme vertical helps this issue though ...

Sun · #53 Posted **Jan 8, 2008, 4:35 AM**

Thanks for the pictures! I didn't know anything about this place.

It reminds me of a small version of Dubai...built on tundra instead of desert.

I have no idea what it is like to live in this city and I could never judge that from photos, but the skyscrapers are pretty d@mn lackluster. It's like a suburban strip mall built vertically. ...when developers care about ONLY two things: Height and Low Cost, this is what you get. Gross

Thanks again for the pictures!

softee · #54 Posted **Jan 8, 2008, 12:04 PM**

^ Built on tundra?? So Mississauga is in the arctic?

Jon Dalton · #55 Posted **Jan 8, 2008, 9:28 PM**

Someone put up a picture of the 403 in Mississauga at my work. I took it down.

WZ1 · #56 Posted **Jan 8, 2008, 10:45 PM**

Looks nice to me..

citizen j · #57 Posted **Jan 8, 2008, 11:00 PM**

I agree with Salvius. I'd say MCC is part-way there in its experiment to create an urban core but will always remain incomplete so long as its centre is a mall surrounded by parking lots. I wonder what LRT down Hurontario would do for the area and how it would shift the focus?

Sun · #58 Posted **Jan 9, 2008, 12:28 AM**

Tundra was a joke.

flar · #59 Posted **Jan 9, 2008, 1:46 AM**

With all the efforts to urbanize it and the possibility of LRT it certainly will be interesting to see what MCC looks like in 10 years.

I think the main problem from a pedestrian point of view is that not only are the roads too wide, there is a ton of space on each side of the road. So overall everything is far too spaced out. This seems very obvious, but at the same time, this simple fact means drastic efforts may be required to make MCC more pedestrian friendly. I'm talking completely ripping out roads and realigning them, creating entirely new city blocks. Also roads need to be connected, there are too many dead ends and areas that you can't easily get between. I think it could be done. Pedestrian timed traffic signals, bike lanes and good transit can only go so far, it has to be walkable in the first place for any of those things to work.

Look at the comparisons of the road grids in Mississauga and two of its more traditional nearby cities (all the same scale). So much more can be packed into MCC:

Mississauga:

Hamilton:

Toronto:

vanman · #60 Posted **Jan 9, 2008, 3:55 AM**

^ Bingo!