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Originally Posted by Docere
Queens NY probably comes the closest to Toronto's "SFHs and big apartments" mix.
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The mix is only specific to Queens though right, as many other parts of NYC famously have the low rises that give New York its character.
But there's no really one standalone single metro area where it's dominated by this mix of SFH and tall towers but little in between, the way Toronto is.
I wonder why it's so rare. You might find it locally elsewhere in North America but not really one entire city like Toronto (let alone its own metro area) where tall towers rise above SFH in the old city and in suburbia alike. Where's the American equivalent of say, a suburb as expansive with this combo, as Mississauga, if not North York, Scarborough, East York etc.
What accounts for the lack of mix elsewhere-- Toronto was just booming at the right combinations of times when the building styles were like that? Just different policies?