I always knew I'd love it, but I loved it way more than I even thought I would. What a beautiful city, and just so happened I was there for Nuit Blanche, so an awesome added bonus!
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Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
Pretty much all of September was fall. Was one of the nicest I can remember.
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Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
That last photo is quite the summation of Toronto. Lots of vegetation, a busy freeway (needs more traffic though), a prewar/just post-war SFH neighborhood with an arterial strip of high-rises on the left, commie blocks overlooking a ravine to the right, and a massive skyline and secondary nodes in the distance.
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Discontented suburbanite since 1994
Yeah, baby. Love those shots of all that fine-grained goodness. But the way Eastern Avenue and that off-ramp from the DVP swoop into the city is really intrusive. They're a relic of a previous age when cars ruled all.
That last photo is quite the summation of Toronto. Lots of vegetation, a busy freeway (needs more traffic though), a prewar/just post-war SFH neighborhood with an arterial strip of high-rises on the left, commie blocks overlooking a ravine to the right, and a massive skyline and secondary nodes in the distance.
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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
The big lot to the east is going to become this, and the big lot to north will become this.
What about the even bigger lot next to the tracks?
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Oh I thought that was another site. For central Toronto the area still has a lot of surface parking. Not to mention the increasingly out of place staples and car dealership.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw Don't ask people not to debate a topic. Just stop making debatable assertions. Problem solved.
Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
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