Calgary towers seen from the Northern hill

Downtown Calgary, wide area full of towers & businessmen, one of the focal centres for Canadian industry, particularly the oil industry. A feeling of business centre, almost similar the corporate feeling you have walking through some part of Manhattan, the City in London or La Défense in France ; smaller scale for sure, but still highly professional. Clean shirt, colored neckties, women with heels and discrete make-up, efficient public transportation, one-way streets and towers, towers, towers, some still under construction, always higher. Contemporary urbanisation.

And the stage for this business theatre can be grasped in one perfect scenery if you just go North. Bow rivers flows North to the towers, a small island, a couple of bridges. Among them, the bridge of centre street, leading straight to downtown and the convention centre, a large street used by many cars and probable commuters arriving from the hill in Sunnyside, the green hill with steep slope above the river valley.

Cross the bridge, walk along the paths and climb the wooden stairways to the small house of the apparently wealthy neighbourhood. Big cars & large gardens, quite streets & alleys, at the end of which the towers heads can be seen above the white fences. The valley's green, the towers shine bright in front of the blue sky, the city offers the sweet show of the inner clash of so many north-american cities: anonymous concrete efficiency VS home-sweet-home in a nearby suburb VS mesmerising landscape.

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July, 25th, 2010 - Calgary, Alberta