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Re: Adma's comment about Vancouver: ... the *first* 20 years of Vancouver point tower development, even though all those 50s60s70s shafts overlooking English Bay must have their own distinctive archi-urban-historical appeal by now.... I have to say, that when I walk the waterfront along False Creek/English Bay and I pass from East to West under the Burrard Bridge, I give a sigh of relief to be transported back in time about 30 years. It's an interesting transition, from an environment so heavily current on the east side, to something that has changed hardly at all since 1979 on the west. And though I give a lot of credit to Vancouver for its waterfront promenades, perhaps sometimes they're just too too for my liking. Everything is so highly structured and planned that the west of this divide seems positively rustic.
Anyways, as much as I bash Vancouver, I think that transition, under that bridge, is certainly one of Canada's most unusual urban thrills. A weird sort of parallel perhaps to Detroit's famous transition between bad and good.
Anyways, as much as I bash Vancouver, I think that transition, under that bridge, is certainly one of Canada's most unusual urban thrills. A weird sort of parallel perhaps to Detroit's famous transition between bad and good.