Green and Pleasant Land?

[pyat]

A common claim for Hamilton is that it has more trees per hectare than any other city in Canada, or possibly North America. I'm not sure of the truth of that, but, in any case here are a series of photos from the web, depicting my home town... none were taken by me.



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The green space in the middle of this photo is a fairly dense urban residential area. velvetpage's grandparents live in here, somewhere, and we lived in one of those apartment buildings near the middle of the scene.


Looking across the ice to the steel factories. Sometimes, especially in winter, Hamilton presents some very alien scenery. Look the other way on a cold winter morning, and you'll see a plain of ice extending to the horizon, and a swollen orange sun rising amidst dervishes of frozen dust.










A perhaps more honest photo...

Comments

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

That strikes me as very good urban planning. It probably helps reduce the pollution from the steel factories.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Accidental planning, more like!