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Originally Posted by Spring2008
I tend to agree. Wasn't majorly impressed with Toronto's architecture either aside from a few historic buildings and some of the new towers going up. Lacking a bit of that grandeur you'd expect from a large city relative to even a city like Mtl. In this respect you cannot compare it to NY at all. Also found the city pretty far behind in natural beauty/park-spaces and public realm compared to say Vancouver. Having said that the city's buzzing with lots of variety/things to do and well on it's way to becoming a global city.
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One really noticeable difference between Toronto and New York is that New York has much older buildings and is much more evenly built up. Where NYC has rows of 10+ storey masonry buildings from 1910 or so, punctuated with the odd landmark building, Toronto has an assortment of 2-4 storey Victorian commercial buildings, 70's highrises, and miscellaneous bunkers. Farther out in NYC there are 5+ storey tenements where Toronto has rowhouses or detached houses. In New York you find big clusters of buildings of particular styles from particular periods, like cast iron facades from the 1850s. I'm not sure how many of those Toronto has but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a neighbourhood with many blocks of them that you can wander around in.
I agree that Toronto is short on nice public spaces too. Whenever I say this people bring up the ravines or High Park but I am talking more about smaller scale public squares and the like. Downtown Toronto has a concrete jungle sort of feel.
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