How to Make an Attractive City: A Video with 6 Rules

[jeffster]

I just found this video elsewhere only to realize it'd already been posted here and I hadn't seen it.  Duh.

Anyways, some really cool ideas in it.  I found myself thinking, from a Waterloo Region perspective, I'd say we're on the right track, no?

I think Kitchener has learned a lot of lessons from it's past, and has improved on itself over the past couple decades. Reusing buildings, like Kaufmann, the Tannery, etc, and building like Kitchener City Hall are great. Certainly Cambridge (Galt) has done a decent job. I have reservations of what's happening in Waterloo tho, with the student housing, it, well, it looks gross.

I think, though, it will be some time before these cities are "pretty". Parts of the cities are pretty though.