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Originally Posted by kolchak
And last if you think its just the North Side - here is the West Side Wicker Park area. Again older and dense and not a lot of open land for high rises - although its beginning to happen here.
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Toronto also has a surprising number of old neighbourhood commercial strips outside the downtown area despite it being much smaller than Chicago in the pre-war era. Unlike Chicago, Toronto's outlying commercial strips are all intact, while many of those in Chicago (expect those on the North Side and parts of the West side) were decimated by urban blight.
A sampling of Toronto's outlying commercial strips:
West Queen West
https://goo.gl/maps/y942cquvgsx
Dundas West (Little Portugal)
https://goo.gl/maps/R9mb5Ms9o2C2
College
https://goo.gl/maps/DUaHRc2rdq82
Bloor West (Bloordale)
https://goo.gl/maps/S8tVEYKj6up
Roncesvalles (Little Poland)
https://goo.gl/maps/LuGLrYS6w4S2
Dundas West (The Junction)
https://goo.gl/maps/aVfcKpB9dLJ2
Ossington
https://goo.gl/maps/GHVPrBRSm5F2
King West (Parkdale)
https://goo.gl/maps/qjKzz91ptTU2
Queen East (Riverside)
https://goo.gl/maps/bdCbN7HUvCM2
Gerrard Street East (Little India)
https://goo.gl/maps/hSKhdQndKdP2
Danforth Avenue (Greektown)
https://goo.gl/maps/X5vd1tjZYJ12
Bloor West (Koreatown)
https://goo.gl/maps/2vbQ32oGdMn
Queen East (The Beach)
https://goo.gl/maps/sUuMrsZj8Ln
St. Clair Avenue West (Corso Italia)
https://goo.gl/maps/MCkcHTeJVcJ2
Oakwood Avenue (Oakwood Village)
https://goo.gl/maps/PiLPh2Va11A2
Dupont Street
https://goo.gl/maps/vpWJRZ299x42
Eglinton Avenue West (Little Jamaica, York)
https://goo.gl/maps/K1gnqKJ2xnF2
North Avenue Road
https://goo.gl/maps/a3AvD13SuS72
North Yonge Street (uptown Toronto)
https://goo.gl/maps/7iwMyiK3JEA2
Mount Pleasant Road
https://goo.gl/maps/cEFfeK7GRVu
Bayview Avenue (Leaside)
https://goo.gl/maps/M9w64K1qDcJ2
Pape Avenue (Pape Village, East York)
https://goo.gl/maps/gASqPyXuX4T2
Main Street
https://goo.gl/maps/AjuGVHEMAfn
Coxwell Avenue
https://goo.gl/maps/B3UVS9CCqcK2
Kingston Road
https://goo.gl/maps/2K34iPVT5Qo
Broadview Avenue (Chinatown East)
https://goo.gl/maps/J3MC5zvgLt42
Bloor Street West (Bloor West Village)
https://goo.gl/maps/9ifHJNAQB1F2
Lakeshore Blvd (New Toronto, Etobicoke)
https://goo.gl/maps/Zsft5C6urp72
Weston Road (Weston, York)
https://goo.gl/maps/UU7uW587zBH2