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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Fair enough. Didn't think of that.
But I still think we need to be more realistic.
Calgary is a boring, docile, business city that only now with more than a million residents is beginning to flesh-out culturally.
A 25 million dollar harp for King Kong resting over the Bow IS NOT culture. It doesn't represent what being Calgarian is. As much as I hate to admit it (because I am sick of cowboy everything), the Saddledome to me is a building that is iconic of our city because its clever. There is nothing clever about fruity bridges in what was originally a frontier town.
Five bridges that allow Calgarians to do stuff IS perpetuating culture.
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Much image is part of culture. If the surroundings are ugly, boring and uninspired people are not going to hang around that kind of stuff. Image is something that draws people in and keeps them interested. It's not everything, but denying it is missing a big part of culture.