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Originally Posted by prat
Here's a couple new ones from Toronto. Much more to come.
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It really is a jumbled, unwieldy mess. I don't think Toronto is ever going to have a manicured look like New York or Chicago. It's such a fantastic irony: for all of their legendary free-wheeling capitalism, American cities have always been drawn up and shaped under the firm grip of centralized government control in concert with willing private actors, whereas Canadian cities (aside from the obvious exceptions of Montreal and Quebec) seem comparatively haphazard and hands-off bureacracy-wise.
In Toronto the powers-that-be in the 19th and early 20th centuries were never interested in grand visions or appealing urban vistas. But maybe that's changing somewhat. The area in the forefront of the photo above is ugly from the air, but on the ground it feels busy and hectic for eight months of the year when the weather is more amenable for it. And some of the plans along the lake shore really do look nice.
But Toronto doesn't do grand gestures, so there's no Millennium Park there. The charm in this city starts when things get dense and higgledy-piggledy enough (as kool maudit has so eloquently pointed out before).
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TO is such a beast.
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