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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
The other successful suburban downtowns like Oakville and Burlington are similar. The suburban-downtown-from-scratch model of Mississauga, Vaughan, and Markham is much harder to work with. The end results may end up successful as well, but in the interim they don't lend themselves as well to the realities of incremental development.
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Of all these, I give the fake downtown Markham the best shot, despite being the one that has the worst transit connections, because the typical Chinese or East Asian lifestyle, where you do most of your entertaining outside of your home, and you want to eat food until late at night and hop between restaurants that cater to different specialties, is very amenable to supporting fine-grained urbanism.
That’s at least half the reason why North York Centre isn’t just serviceably urban but actually interesting.