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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
That they're wealthy corridors is still an arbitrary point of comparison though. You could just as well make the point that the two cities are nothing alike by posting streetviews of their respective Polish neighbourhoods. That two areas in different cities have a single common characteristic doesn't otherwise make them good analogues.
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Wouldn't you try and compare areas that historically serve similar purposes in their respective cities? In which case I think it would be apt to compare two cities Little Italy's to see how development patterns of the same demographic differ across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries.
Yonge Street North of Bloor has always been the main arterial through the wealthy area of the city, and so, if Chicago and Toronto were indeed comparable you would expect some similarities. The fact that Yonge and Eglinton transitioned into a "CBD-lite" commercial corridor and Chicago's remained consistently low-rise and prewar actually helps show the difference, instead of invalidating the comparison because they don't have similar built form.