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I took a short city trip to Antwerp last week. On wednesday, I took the train down to Brussels to visit the city once more. To me, Brussels is worth a visit just as much as Paris (or London). It has grand avenues, urban parks, skyscraperclusters à la 'la Défense' and impressive public spaces...

Toronto looks great from the water. Love the last shot.

I went through more or less the same development: 2 years ago I came home from a month in the US and Canada, severely dissapointed in Europe, because at the time North America was heaven to me. Nowadays it's more like a reverse reflex for me too, after two years of studying Urban Planning at...

Well, look at that! Another Dutchman :) I agree that Berlin is the best place to live for young people, out of all the cities you mentioned. Zurich doesn't really appeal to me, even though it keeps being ranked as one of the world's best places to live, somehow I have this image of Zurich as...

Privatization of Deutsche Bahn might be a good idea because of the money that it will raise for the company. I don't think that total privatization would do rail services any good. Especially the German governement needs to think twice before possibly making that move in the future. In 1995...

Thanks for your replies :) unimaginative2, compared to your pictures of depressed American post-industrial cities... (can you still call places so dead (1st pic) cities?) those Belgian towns don't look too bad indeed. It's just that they fall way out of the line in the region, as they are...

That will be quite a challenge. I believe that the population size and density of any region needs to pass a certain treshold in order for rail networks to work. The concept of Transit Oriented Development is great, but mostly usefull at the urban scale. It's no solution for regional traffic...

Fantastic shots, Darkstar! The last one is my favorite. City place looks great.

Cities of Belgium Pt. 1 - Brussels [1] Pt. 1 - Brussels [2] Pt. 2 - Louvain la Neuve, Newtown Pt. 3 - Ghent Pt. 4 - Flemish Cities/ Flemish Coast Where all the cities are located: So, this is the last part already! I started with (what I think are) the most impressive cities of...

Exactly. And it's not just in Ieper (didn't know Ypres was the English name of the town) where they have done this. Germans are good at it, too. Cologne and Frankfurt have neighbourhoods that are essentially copies of their pre-war former selves. Emden, a small town in the country's northwest...

Incredible pics! Got to love Madrid's streetscapes :cool:

Both cities are damn perfect, I'm going to Madrid this fall :) thanks for the pics!

Dia condos looks great indeed! Impressive developments in North York.

Cities of Belgium Pt. 1 - Brussels [1] Pt. 1 - Brussels [2] Pt. 2 - Louvain la Neuve, Newtown Pt. 3 - Ghent This is Pt. 4, I'll show you Bruges, Ieper, and the horribly planned Flemish coast. The last part, part 5, will be about industrial towns in the French-speaking part of...

Nice pics, Darkstar and wylie! I didn't know you could see T.O. from across Lake Ontario, that's pretty impressive!

^ Exactly, according to him, a large gay population reflects an open-minded attitude of the local population. The positive relationship he found between the score of a city on the 'gay index' and it's attractiveness to talented people, made us suspect that talented people seek out these cities...

Very interesting news. Three students and I recently finished a research on whether the ideas of Florida (especially his ideas surrounding the geographic concentration of talent) are applicable to the Netherlands (we're still awaiting our marks…). I'm not sure if this is the right place to post...

Such a charming town, it reminds me of Britain (more than just a wee bit!) ;)

Good work, Toronto's looking great as usual! Your threads are an example of what good photography should be.

Pt. 1 - Brussels:1 Pt. 1 - Brussels:2 Pt. 2 - Louvain la Neuve Ghent Ghent is the third city of Belgium, with a population of 230,000. It is situated in the so-called 'Flemish Diamond', the Belgian equivalent of Holland's Randstad, or Canada's Windsor-Quebec City Corridor. The...