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[AndreaPalladio]

The plan was, if I recall correctly, to plant cherry trees on Cherry Street. If so, it will be a riot of colour in the spring.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Fantastic RC1 - it's nice to see that Toronto hasn't lost the art of building a proper mid-rise neighbourhood. Also take note of how a proper urban realm can help to really improve even an incomplete streetscape.

AoD

 

[DSC]

The plan was, if I recall correctly, to plant cherry trees on Cherry Street. If so, it will be a riot of colour in the spring.

I recollect discussion of this and am pretty sure Cherry Trees were NOT the plan because they drop sap or ??

 

[hawc]

Ermergherd! Cherry Blursurms!

 

[Tewder]

Sorry, that's revisionist history. If the Baron was bulldozing the Paris slums today, he'd put up glass condos. The only reason he chose 7-stories was that was as far as a chamber pot could be carried, in his opinion, or he would have stacked the slumdwellers higher.

Agree on Liberty Village - it started out so nice, and got strangled by crap.

Yes, but no. To claim there were no 'aesthetics' involved in the development of that city, in Paris of all places, is to be completely ignorant of its culture and history, 'revisionist' or otherwise. The Parisians would take to the street en masse if any developer dared propose the sort of shite that is standard in Toronto.

 

[hawc]

To claim there were no 'aesthetics' involved in the development of Paris is to be completely ignorant of its culture and history. The Parisians would take to the street en masse if any developer dared propose the sort of shite that is standard in Toronto.

True. Very true.

 

[drum118]

Oct 14

 

[hawc]

This is going to be nice!

 

[ProjectEnd]

It would have been so much better with Holl's water treatment facility. Go Toronto. Sigh.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

District Energy Plant, actually...but yeah, too bad it didn't happen.

AoD

 

[gei]

Yes, but no. To claim there were no 'aesthetics' involved in the development of that city, in Paris of all places, is to be completely ignorant of its culture and history, 'revisionist' or otherwise. The Parisians would take to the street en masse if any developer dared propose the sort of shite that is standard in Toronto.

Isn't that more or less what they did with the Eiffel tower?

 

[isaidso]

Isn't that more or less what they did with the Eiffel tower?

Precisely, Parisians were revolted by the Eiffel Tower and considered it a blight on their city. Complaints are sometimes valid, but they're often simply people resisting change.

 

[MafaldaBoy]

23 September 2013:

 

[Adjei]

Why do we always use the cheap looking grey poles everywhere in this city even in new neighbourhoods in this city?

 

[interchange42]

23 September 2013:

I, uh, I think that cladding looks reaaaaally promising.

Thanks for the fantastic photo updates today MB!

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