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Originally Posted by scrapin
As others have said in this thread despite ridicule from some people, i think i bring up a good point, u have all those skyscrapers in one little area, if they were more spread out like the majority of cities i think downtown toronto would look a lot bigger. If somebody could make an illustration out of this it would be very cool and much appreciated!
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Yes, you had a good point and I observed it too.
All the tallest towers of Toronto are in the CBD, bound by Yonge/University/Front/Queen, which is a small part of downtown. East of Yonge the height rapidly decreases from 200m+ to under 50M+ with no transition. Many of the builders due to crowding together can't even been seen.
For example if some of the buildings were moved from the CBD to say, Queen/John, Church/Dundas, King/Jarvis and College/Spadina, the CBD would essentially look the same, but the skyline/downtown looks as if it were twice as large, because you have new anchor buildings to look at.
But the current arrangement makes practical sense as all the buildings are close to each other, even linked by underground path. Although it looks not as impressive.
Also toronto's highrises (north of CBD) are too much hinged on Yonge st. The east side is essentially flat (which may be already changing).