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About the same. Contiguous 400 per square kilometer tracts for Canada; 1000 per square mile tracts for US urban area. Toronto suburbs have small lots (average smaller than California suburbs), lots of high rises and little "leapfrog" development, so this shouldn't be a surprise.
I see. So it's the same in terms of contiguous tracts, but the tracts for the US have a lot less resolution since 400 square km is equal to about 154 square miles which is significantly smaller than 1000 per square mile. Am I reading this correctly?
I see. So it's the same in terms of contiguous tracts, but the tracts for the US have a lot less resolution since 400 square km is equal to about 154 square miles which is significantly smaller than 1000 per square mile. Am I reading this correctly?
No. I meant the limit was 400 people per square km. That's about 880 per square mile, so about the same as the American threshold.
Every nation has its main premier city. For the US it's NYC and Canada, Toronto has taken it. Surely getting most of the development and wealth. Chicago always had to play second fiddle to NYC.... even third to LA? But just as Toronto has come of age for Canada now. Chicago is for the US.
Trying to take its rightful place, always having to deal with the negative stereotypes from the Capone mafia era, 68 riot to crime gang stigma today. But it has been blossoming despite it all..
Still....Chicago was and is lucky to still have land around its downtown to develop even from scratch. Manhattan does not... Parts of Chicago's downtown are virtually all new... being developed in the last 30 years.
I give picture examples
1970 ⤵ ................Today .. ......large available space south of downtown both sides of Chicago River. Including air rights over railroad beds Chicago used well.
Nice pics!! Outside of NYC, Chicago and Toronto definately have the most impressive DT core areas in North America.. Here's a recent vid of a flight coming into T.O's DT airport - gives a great view of the city!
Here's some from the Bathurst Corridor of North York. Heading north, it's heavily Orthodox Jewish around Lawrence and Wilson and becomes more Russian in the high rise buildings around Sheppard. Maybe this resembles some more suburban sections of Queens or the West Rogers Park area of Chicago?
This area was built up during the 1950s and 1960s, and is quite car-oriented. Look down the side streets and you'll see a mixture of postwar bungalows, teardown houses and more wealthy streets
This is Toronto's more authentic Little Italy, known as Corso Italia, at the northwest edge of the old city of Toronto. While the College Street Little Italy is quite gentrified, not very Italian anymore and is mainly known for its restaurants, this area has more of an authentic, working class Italian feel (more family restaurants, bridal shops, etc.) The area is however quite diverse, and though it includes a lot of old school Italian, it's also quite Portuguese and Latin American also. Overall I believe it's about 25% Italian today. I believe the movie Moonstruck was shot in this area.
The Etobicoke lakeshore communities of Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch are off the radar of most Torontonians. They developed as streetcar suburbs in the 1920s but continued to grow through the 1950s. Trendy urban Torontonians don't usually take the streetcar west of High Park, while few Torontonians seem aware of the extensive communities south of the QEW highway. So it's known to be an insular area, and has a mostly white population (largely Irish and Eastern European). Mostly working class to middle class, but with some big lakefront homes.
Riverdale is a very desirable neighborhood just east of the Don River in the east end. Known as a politically progressive, affluent family neighborhood with nice parks, some of the city's most desirable public schools, excellent transit access and great views of downtown.
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