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Downtown Kitchener Tall Building Urban Design Guideline.
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06-11-2016, 04:18 PM
(06-11-2016, 02:05 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: One thing Etherington left unsaid is that bad as King and Columbia are, they look better than 90% of Kitchener. I have visitors from out of town this week and while driving around several times they said, why is it so ugly around here? and every time it was when we had crossed from Waterloo to Kitchener. They were indifferent to the high rises in Northdale, while they actively disliked Kitchener. The "emperor has no clothes" argument here is that most of "heritage" Kitchener is actually rather mediocre and not worth the designation.

Second he makes it sound like the reason King and Columbia is bad is high rises, which is just an ignorant comment. It is possible to have a very nice town full of sky rises just it is possible to have a horrible town full of detached single homes.

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RE: Downtown Kitchener Urban Design Guidelines - by jordan2423 - 06-11-2016, 04:18 PM

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