Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[Wpg_Guy]

Wow what a view, unreal!

[craner]

Those views from Harbour Plaza are FANTASTIC !!
Thank-you.

[vanman]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Taken this week, as this one:


https://www.instagram.com/p/B1wJ74nBCjt/

Spectacular!

[vanman]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Nice view^

Shot 5 by Kenneth Redaj, on Flickr

Ok there Shanghai.

But seriously. That is some insane density.

[TorontoDrew]

Taken last fall
Aerial-Toronto-27 by _futurelandscapes_, on Flickr

Aerial-Toronto-81 by _futurelandscapes_, on Flickr

Aerial-Toronto-148 by _futurelandscapes_, on Flickr


Aerial-Toronto-40 by _futurelandscapes_, on Flickr

[Wpg_Guy]

Dan Harper @DanHarperPhoto
https://twitter.com/DanHarperPhoto/status/1167541502169554945?s=20

[FrAnKs]

Source : https://www.complexecapitalehelicoptere.com/

[Nicko999]

Toronto makes all other Canadian cities look like small villages.

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by Nicko999

Toronto makes all other Canadian cities look like small villages.

Déjà que Montréal traite Québec de village...
On sait qu'on part de loin
(Sarcasme)

[Wpg_Guy]

Originally Posted by Nicko999

Toronto makes all other Canadian cities look like small villages.

We need a Toronto ban in this thread just for a few pages, it's just too big and spectacular.

[Darkoshvilli]

Originally Posted by Nicko999

Toronto makes all other Canadian cities look like small villages.

HAHAHAHAHAH

No.

[AuxTown]

Wow, very Gotham! I like my quiet little city but TO is becoming an amazing urban center.

[kool maudit]

Toronto is the only Canadian city that has embraced a megalopolitan aesthetic. Montreal is doing a sort of northern-euro livability thing and Vancouver has its mountains and all that. Only Toronto sees worth in scale.

[Nouvellecosse]

Vancouver and Montreal's height limits and view planes seem to be largely based on aesthetics, but is Toronto's lack of similar measures really an active aesthetic decision meant to embrace a "megalopolitan aesthetic"? It seems to me that it just doesn't have the same type of geographic characteristics (Mont Royal, Coast Mountains, etc.) that it would want to avoid overshadowing.

[Denscity]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Vancouver and Montreal's height limits and view planes seem to be largely based on aesthetics, but is Toronto's lack of similar measures really an active aesthetic decision meant to embrace a "megalopolitan aesthetic"? It seems to me that it just doesn't have the same type of geographic characteristics (Mont Royal, Coast Mountains, etc.) that it would want to avoid overshadowing.

Most of southern Ontario is really flat so the only view Toronto has is of the water.

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Vancouver and Montreal's height limits and view planes seem to be largely based on aesthetics, but is Toronto's lack of similar measures really an active aesthetic decision meant to embrace a "megalopolitan aesthetic"? It seems to me that it just doesn't have the same type of geographic characteristics (Mont Royal, Coast Mountains, etc.) that it would want to avoid overshadowing.

It's true that cities like Toronto, Chicago or Melbourne (i.e. flat, and yes, I know about the ravines...) are more likely to develop big skylines, but Toronto's civic culture seems to also have a love of bigness. There is a real sense of centrality and scale that is cultivated in media and in how people speak.

Toronto just LOVES being number one, being the biggest and the tallest and all that, and not every city that happens to have that sort of hegemony gets into it like that.

It's something I find kind of charming about Toronto, and more so since I've been away. It's still a bit gawky and adolescent about it all, and its covering up a few insecurities, but it's also true: it's number one. It's number one by a mile now. And it wanted this for sooooo long, you can just feel the tension and glee and excitement.

[kool maudit]

In very different news, and based on my strong feeling that my apartment feels a lot like Canadian soil right now given Sortilège and an old Unicorns record, Stockholm:

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

It's true that cities like Toronto, Chicago or Melbourne (i.e. flat, and yes, I know about the ravines...) are more likely to develop big skylines, but Toronto's civic culture seems to also have a love of bigness. There is a real sense of centrality and scale that is cultivated in media and in how people speak.

Toronto just LOVES being number one, being the biggest and the tallest and all that, and not every city that happens to have that sort of hegemony gets into it like that.

It's something I find kind of charming about Toronto, and more so since I've been away. It's still a bit gawky and adolescent about it all, and its covering up a few insecurities, but it's also true: it's number one. It's number one by a mile now. And it wanted this for sooooo long, you can just feel the tension and glee and excitement.

I still can't help but view Toronto as the accidental metropolis. I don't see this ascent as part of a grand plan, a grandiose vision or a grand ambition.

More like a good old WASP ethos of "do the right things and good things will happen".

If the dominant look of ambitious, "open", booming megacities in the 2019 were Florence, then today's Toronto would look like Florence.

Ironically the secret of its success might just be that it's not incredibly aspirational. It just goes with the flow. This easy-going nature is highly valued in our times, and obviously rewarded as well.

[kool maudit]

That's where we disagree a bit. I think Toronto was champing at the bit since Edwardian days for the Canadian belt.

[Martin Mtl]

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