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Even though Chicago's skyline is much larger than Toronto's, I didn't get the impression that Chicago was extremely urban, more just that it has a lot of tall buildings. I get the same feeling about Seattle.
Toronto just feels very big and important being there, because of its vibrancy, relatively high density throughout the metro and the fact there are high rises throughout much of the city and not just downtown. Also it's the largest city in a huge country which makes it seem more important than it ought to.
Mexico City, LA, SF, Chicago, and Philly all feel more urban to me. Mexico City and LA feel much, much more urban. Possibly Montreal too. Boston is in the conversation too.
The only argument for Toronto being equally urban as these places is if you just blindly counted # of highrises and equated that with urbanity. But a huge proportion of Toronto highrises are just suburban commieblocks.
I guess by "North America" I meant the US and Canada. I consider Mexico part of South America culturally.
Yeah, Mexico is very much North America. Continents aren't particularly helpful or appropriate when discussing cultural spheres due to intracontinental differences, whether it be the Americas, Europe (Western v. Eastern), Africa (North Africa vs. rest of Africa) etc. Latin America to me is the more appropriate term to discuss the fairly contiguous group of countries brought together by a somewhat similar history and language and that spans two continents and the Caribbean.
I guess by "North America" I meant the US and Canada. I consider Mexico part of South America culturally.
Mexico isn't part of South America culturally, or in any way whatsoever.
And I'm still trying to understand how Toronto is even clearly the most urban city in Canada. Montreal, to me, has more solid urban fabric over a larger area. Toronto only wins in highrises and growth.
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