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Have you been to Mississauga? It's urban sprawl gone mad. It's one of the most bland, characterless strip mall excuses for a city in North America. The books ma
by celticjames 17y ago
Have you been to Mississauga? It's urban sprawl gone mad. It's one of the most bland, characterless strip mall excuses for a city in North America. The books may be balanced, but it's a joyless wasteland of big box stores and cookie cutter urban development.
- patrickgzill 17y agoIf you look at a map at the "proper" scale, you will realize that it is really just a repeated set of streets, truly cookie cutter as you say. Look at the curved roads which go between major streets - they all curve roughly the same way, and feed into the residential areas on the same pattern.
- astrodust 17y agoThe first thing they do in any suburban construction in Mississauga is scrape the terrain flat, then add in artful hills and curves as dictated by the blueprints, not as nature had them. The end result is this homogeneous, entirely manufactured landscape. The roads in Mississauga were designed to handle traffic twenty years in the future. Unfortunately they were built in the 1970s and are now feeling the strain.
- jessep 17y agoIt sounds like Emeryville in the Bay Area.
- BearOfNH 17y agoit's a joyless wasteland of big box stores and cookie cutter urban development Fair enough. But one man's joyless wasteland is another man's cheerful paradise. There's no accounting for taste. At least, I hope not.