Nuuk’s progress ‘aspirational’ to Iqaluit

By Jeff Pelletier, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter With a new seasonal air link to Nuuk, Greenland, travellers from Iqaluit will find a city that in some ways is similar but bigger, faster-growing and with services not seen in the Nunavut capital. They will land in a fly-in city with a similar climate and array of colourful buildings, owing to a discontinued tradition of colour-coding structures based on their function. However, they will also discover Nuuk as a capital city that has grown much vaster and taller than Iqaluit and includes businesses and amenities Iqaluit lacks. “It feels like Nuuk has grown from a small town where everybody knew each other, to something that feels more like a capital or a larger European city to live in, even though it isn’t,…

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