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Hamilton is a city on two levels. The escarpment runs straight through it, and the lower city and the Mountain are joined by a short list of access roads that all back up at the same times. Below the brow the housing is early twentieth-century worker stock with rear lanes; above it, post-war suburb.
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What Hamilton is made of
The Mountain accesses are the whole geography
There are only a handful of roads up the escarpment inside Hamilton — the Jolley Cut, the Sherman, the Claremont, Queen Street, the Kenilworth — every one of them steep, and several of them closed in ice. A booking on the Mountain taken from the lower city is not a short trip in January. No other municipality here has a cliff through the middle of it.
One city, five old towns
Hamilton amalgamated in 2001 and took in Dundas, Ancaster, Stoney Creek, Flamborough and Glanbrook, so a Hamilton address can be a downtown walk-up, a village main street or a farm on a concession road. Like Toronto it is single-tier — one set of by-laws over all of it — but the ground under those by-laws changes completely from one address to the next.
The lower city was laid out for lanes
The grid below the escarpment was built before cars: rear lanes behind the houses on the blocks between Barton and Cannon, no driveway in front of many of them, and street parking that is often permit-only. The lane behind is how anything large actually reaches the back of the house. Nothing in Milton or Brampton is laid out this way.