wyliepoon
Senior Member
That is what I would call a downtown for Streetsville, if done right as a starting point.
If that's the ideal suburban downtown, then there's a lot of hope for Downtown Markham...
That is what I would call a downtown for Streetsville, if done right as a starting point.
Oshawa, London, Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Parry Sound, Stratford and just about any other city, town and burg in Ontario is more urban than Mississauga.
Because Mississauga chose the American Dream version of a city.
Streetville could have been a start of a good downtown, but instead of putting in a town square, they built a monstrosity of a shopping centre to the north. It would have been better if they had built shops on the first floor with offices and residences above them like this:
That is what I would call a downtown for Streetsville, if done right as a starting point.
Ah, trust those Euros to outdo the Americans at "American style" urbanism
Since when was a VIA station a necessity for a vibrant downtown? Ottawa doesn't have a VIA station downtown either.
You are nitpicking, seriously. Seems like same old Mississauga-bashing. You point out Hamilton planned rapid transit lines, but conveniently forget Mississauga's? Mississauga has higher transit ridership than Hamilton, and many other "real" cities in North America for that matter.
No, lack of transit, pedestrians, GO and VIA are not the reasons MCC sucks. I'd say the huge swaths of undeveloped land, sea of parking lots, big box, master-planned communities, wide arterials, incomplete street grid are the real reasons MCC is not a real downtown.
I never thought of that. Tim Hortons seems like MoMA compared to it.That Second Cup is the worst coffee shop I've ever been in. The back portion is a plain square white room.
Markham started building its downtown in the 80s, around the same time Mississauga started (though Mississauga already had a mall and some offices on the site). Their civic centres were built only two years apart.