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Originally Posted by isaidso
Great Toronto set. Maybe it's because I've seen so many Toronto shots but the thing that struck me was how much room the downtown still has before it fills out. Toronto can look absolutely massive in some photos but when you walk along many of the downtown streets it doesn't feel like that.
I live in one of the densest areas of downtown and it doesn't feel dense at all. The core will need another 200-300 buildings 100m+ before it feels as big at street level as it does in skyline shots.
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Interesting, I feel the opposite way. I think the city feels massive at street level, but honestly in skyline shots not as much. I think this is for a couple reasons:
- Because Toronto doesn't have natural barriers to its downtown, it's hard to understand the area actually covered by all those skyscrapers (at least for those of us not from Toronto). Manhattan, for example, looks massive because you have tall buildings water to water, edge to edge - it looks dominant. With Toronto's quick transition into rowhouses, and also concentration along Yonge Street, reduces its overall impact I think. When you're on the street walking for an hour though and the buildings don't end, then it feels like what it really is.
- Less important, but also when so many buildings are 150m/200m+ it's hard to grasp their scale from aerials too. There's nothing to compare them to, and they just look like generally tall buildings. But here again when you actually walk on the street and compare them to yourself, their true scale is much more obvious.
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