Is Toronto more of a "doughnut" city or a "wedge" city?

[Docere]

Is Toronto's economic geography more of a doughnut pattern, where you have a gentrified core surrounded by a poorer ring then surrounded by more affluent suburbs, or is it more of a "wedge" pattern where you have you have more working class and more affluent sectors running out of the core and into the suburbs.

On the one hand, Toronto does have a core/periphery pattern; on the other hand the "favored quarter" has traditionally run north of the city center.

[Docere]

Cue memes about Homer Simpson, Tim Horton's etc...

[isaidso]

We're an eclair; skimpy on the cream.

[Docere]

Forgot that nobody really reads the Toronto section.

[Doady]

Toronto probably isn't that polarized by income to begin with. The pattern is probably mix of wedge and doughnut, maybe closer to wedge, if you look at the "Tale of Three Cities" maps: http://www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/pdfs/curp/tnrn/Three-Cities-Within-Toronto-2010-Final.pdf

The wealthiest areas are along the subway lines, and the poorest are near the border (far from subway, lack of fare integration with 905 transit). The article is only for Toronto proper but Malton probably would be in City #3 as well. Physical and political isolation seems the common theme.

[Docere]

At a downtown law firm, say, probably a majority of partners would live in the area bounded roughly by Bloor and the 401, Bathurst and Leslie.

[swimmer_spe]

It is more of a wedged donut. There are rings of both you speak o, but it is almost like certain sports are jumped. For instance, not all of Jane St and Finch St are bad, but their intersection is notorious.

[Docere]

Originally Posted by swimmer_spe

It is more of a wedged donut. There are rings of both you speak o, but it is almost like certain sports are jumped. For instance, not all of Jane St and Finch St are bad, but their intersection is notorious.

True but the NW sector that contains Jane-Finch is working class and lower income.