Recent content by mininamib

Are Canadian suburbs like Mississauga (over 800,000!) unique in the Western world for their population sizes and skylines? I can imagine many parallels in East Asia, but I cannot seem to think of equivalents in North America, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand. Perhaps in Latin America?

It is quite eye-opening when one compares the population of Mississauga with European cities like Dublin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, or Rotterdam and realizes just how populace and big it is for a mere “suburb”. I am curious how aware people in other provinces and countries are of Mississauga...

Like much of Oakville.

There is a petition going around to halt development in mid-town Oakville. Is there a way for us to counter-act it? https://www.insauga.com/stopping-oakville-midtown-development-goal-of-community-groups-petition/

There is a petition being circulated to stop development in mid-town Oakville. How can we counter-act it? https://www.insauga.com/stopping-oakville-midtown-development-goal-of-community-groups-petition/

That’s a large footprint for just parking spots. 👣

When I was a kid my family was one of the first to move into a new development and our neighbourhood was a giant construction site for several years (4-5) afterwards. Yes there was sound and dust and mud and I had to walk through it all to a bus stop to get to school- but we dealt with it...

So CTV News wrote an article about this project: apparently when you move into new development neighbourhood, you can hear the sound of said development still under construction. 🚧 Who would have thought...

That‘s a good point, I guess since the cities together form one city (in essence), the dip in building height will make the boundary more noticeable from a distance when you see the whole skyline. Does the KW area have a point of higher elevation such as a hill or escapement, like Hamilton...

Kitchener-Waterloo will have a cool skyline in s few years‘ time! 🤩

That sounds like a good idea! Mississauga needs more high order transit going into Toronto as well as its other neighbours.

I guess one could argue that luxury towers reduce some demand for McMansions to be built so that the wealthy have a place to park their money live. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Even in Oakville, the big box plazas along highly populated corridors such as Dundas and Trafalgar are endowed with largely empty carparks. I don‘t understand the rationale for the scale of land usage for a relatively small number of stores; was it purely due to minimum parking requirements?

It looks like Simba and Mufasa* are getting a thrill out of watching the tower grow! *it occurred to me after my post that my autocorrect put Samba and Mustafa 😅😂 Sounds like some cheap rip off version - The Lyon King.