Your City, a Few Photos at a Time

[Chadillaccc]

Reflected light on Ivy by John Andersen (JPAndersen images), on Flickr

I miss summer..... by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

After the Rain the street by John Andersen (JPAndersen images), on Flickr

The Bow by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

[shappy]

St. Lawrence neighbourhood - Toronto


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[Drybrain]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

The Bow by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

I used to live right near these rowhouses and I always wondered about them. They almost look like a prairie variation on a Montreal-style rowhouse. They're so completely unlike any housing anywhere else in the city--old Calgary has very little residential brick, and is mostly single-family, freestanding houses. I wonder if there's more to them than just being a unique one-off. (I also wonder what they're like inside.)

[Chadillaccc]

There are a few other rowhouses similar to those in the inner city. I'll try to get shots of them on my photo walk this Friday.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by shappy

St. Lawrence neighbourhood - Toronto


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This is the one section of the city that defies the standard Victorian shopfront and bay-and-gable residential forms that otherwise characterize Toronto almost exclusively. It really feels different around here, and you sort of wish that a bit more of the city looked like this.

[mcminsen]

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[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by rousseau

This is the one section of the city that defies the standard Victorian shopfront and bay-and-gable residential forms that otherwise characterize Toronto almost exclusively. It really feels different around here, and you sort of wish that a bit more of the city looked like this.

In terms of urban fabric, it is by far my favorite section of Toronto. In a few spots, with the right angle, you can almost imagine what could have been Toronto version of Old Montreal.

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by rousseau

This is the one section of the city that defies the standard Victorian shopfront and bay-and-gable residential forms that otherwise characterize Toronto almost exclusively. It really feels different around here, and you sort of wish that a bit more of the city looked like this.

that photo makes it look like a sort of half-midwestern boston. it's... handsome. i think that's the word. it's dignified and solid and stately.

[Martin Mtl]

Like a little piece of NDG in Calgary. Nice.

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

The Bow by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

[Martin Mtl]

Cityscape by hm.pix on Flickr

[Drybrain]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

There are a few other rowhouses similar to those in the inner city. I'll try to get shots of them on my photo walk this Friday.

Whoops, I was thinking of these.

Which means I can't place this picture off the top of my head. Given the orientation to the Bow, somewhere on the east side?

[someone123]

Halifax, looking northeast toward part of the North End, naval dockyard, and Dartmouth


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[Boris2k7]

Originally Posted by Drybrain

Whoops, I was thinking of these.

Which means I can't place this picture off the top of my head. Given the orientation to the Bow, somewhere on the east side?

Here

[Drybrain]

Originally Posted by Boris2k7

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No idea how I lived in (and thoroughly explored) downtown Calgary for years without coming across this (or somehow erasing it from memory).

It literally must be the only block in the entire centre city that I don't have some memory of. But I never spent any time near the casino, or in Vic Park, so I guess it makes sense. A bit miffed to have somehow missed that, though. Nice block.

[kool maudit]

those calgary houses are quite good. i didn't know calgary had ones like that.

[Laceoflight]

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[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by rousseau

This is the one section of the city that defies the standard Victorian shopfront and bay-and-gable residential forms that otherwise characterize Toronto almost exclusively. It really feels different around here, and you sort of wish that a bit more of the city looked like this.

I know what you're saying but there are a few other nodes around town like this such as King West, Spadina, the Entertainments District and parts of Parkdale off the top of my head.

Mine

[VivaPhysicality]

Hastings Street


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Main Street


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Fraser Street


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Kingsway


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Commercial Drive


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[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by Drybrain

Whoops, I was thinking of these.

Which means I can't place this picture off the top of my head. Given the orientation to the Bow, somewhere on the east side?

Haha those are the ones that first came into my mind when I thought of which other ones we have that I know of actually. The ones I posted (photo is from Surreal) are right in front of The Guardians in Victoria Park. There are a set in Eau Claire, as well as a few sets in the Beltline

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

GREAT Halifax pic, Someone123!!

Montreal (Sault-au-Récollet), backstreet side today


IMG_4905 by Louis-Philippe Rousselle, on Flickr


IMG_4895 by Louis-Philippe Rousselle, on Flickr


IMG_4883-4889 by Louis-Philippe Rousselle, on Flickr

Great back alleys. Montreal has them in spades. NDG, East end, V St. Pierre, LaSalle, Cote-des-Neiges, The Point, St. Henri, Little Burgundy...even parts of Westmount and Outremont