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To get to the bottom of what qualifies as “badly designed,” we picked the brains of several urban planners to highlight the flaws of some of the world’s biggest cities. In the end, that birthed a list of nine cities that, for various reasons, are gigantic messes in some way or another.
Some you’d expect (Jakarta), some you’ve not heard of (Naypyidaw), some that surprise (Missoula) – here.
Ugly people build ugly cities . . .
http://members.shaw.ca/webmaster-nonpareil/Thu%20Horror/thu.horror.html
If I remember correctly, my quote there was referring to a specific project, not the entire city’s list of developments. At the very least your use of it there is misleading as to the intent of what I wanted to say.
I really can’t take the Boston or Missoula entries seriously. They seem to mostly focus on the absence of a completely rectilinear street grid, something that entirely livable cities around the old world have suffered through for millennia.
agreed.
Nanaimo, BC has somewhat of a slant grid – in the downtown the streets are laid out as concentric rings centred on downtown – each ring has a “slant” where it meets a street radiating from downtown.
The tiny area of downtown Nanaimo is the only part that isn’t a blight on the entire landscape. Nanaimo, and specifically all the mall garbage along the highway is often used as the ‘what not to do’ case study.
Absolutely right Don. I’ve lived on Nanaimo’s downtown waterfront for fifteen years.
PS This . . .
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/04/17/Liberate-Bank-of-Canada/
. . . will do more to enhance our urban environment than all the theories and urban planning courses with their well intended lecturers, academics and planning bureaucrats, that get up in the morning!
Are you saying, Roger, that the Bank of Canada is not owned by the Canadian government ? I thought it was a crown corporation ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Canada
I am saying Thomas . . .
http://www.members.shaw.ca/theultimatescam/The%20Bank%20of%20Canada.htm
. . . the BofC is a private corporation.