Does Toronto's urban structure have more in common with large US Midwest Cities or large US Northeast Cities? (Los Angeles, size)

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by eschaton

You can find them in Louisville too.

Louisville has more shotguns than ANY city in the USA. Even more than New Orleans (after Katrina). Louisville is the coolest city you never knew anything about

Preservation Louisville, Inc.

This is a cool preservation movement.

Louisville has more festivals per capita than any city in the USA. Here is an interesting one celebrating shotguns...

Shotgun Fest

Shotgun fest is actually this weekend. October 8th. Also Ironman Louisville this weekend as well.....

Anyways, I think Toronto is more Midwest like Chicago.

[TheProf]

Originally Posted by Atticman

^ Thanks for the links! I figured Cleveland had to have some rows here and there, but yes, overall its built form is very different from Toronto.

Much different. I find Toronto to have more in common with Northeast Corridor American cities like Boston, Philly and Baltimore. It just feels old and colonial. Cleveland is clearly Midwestern; more wide open and spacious, but with some sprinklings of Eastern-style density and walkability ... below, I had to throw in "downtown" Little Italy, Cleveland's most "New York" neighborhood; complete with a 'subway' stop, too...

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5086...7i13312!8i6656

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Hands down, I'd have to say midwest. The US northeast is an extremely high level of urban, and Toronto isn't in that caliber. Toronto is structurally urban, though, and it's structure can compare to a Detroit or Chicago.

[TheProf]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Hands down, I'd have to say midwest. The US northeast is an extremely high level of urban, and Toronto isn't in that caliber. Toronto is structurally urban, though, and it's structure can compare to a Detroit or Chicago.

Really? To me, the only similarity is the flatness of each of these 3 cities and the regularity of their street grids. Of these 3 in terms of building style, Toronto is closer to Chicago to me, but Toronto seems more like a Northeastern US city because if the tightness and compactness of its central city... Still though, even though Chicago has considerable Eastern-style housing (more side-by-side "flats" as opposed to actual row houses) in its older sections especially in the north and south, still has kind of vast openness of a Midwestern city. It has been call the Prairie City because it's a giant grid that opens up and disappears into the flat countryside. Even though the housing styles are quite different and one city is much more deteriorated than the other, Chicago feels more similar to Detroit than it does with Toronto or any of the colonial Eastern cities... That's just my take.

[North 42]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Hands down, I'd have to say midwest. The US northeast is an extremely high level of urban, and Toronto isn't in that caliber. Toronto is structurally urban, though, and it's structure can compare to a Detroit or Chicago.

Toronto isn't a high level of urban? You have obviously never been to the city for you say that, it is actually hyper urban.

[Atticman]

Toronto has lots of narrow streets that you would rarely find in Chicago and especially not in Detroit.

[King of Kensington]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Hands down, I'd have to say midwest. The US northeast is an extremely high level of urban, and Toronto isn't in that caliber. Toronto is structurally urban, though, and it's structure can compare to a Detroit or Chicago.

The US northeast meaning three cities (NYC/Boston/Philadelphia)? Define "extremely high level of urban."

[Othello Is Here]

Originally Posted by North 42

Toronto isn't a high level of urban? You have obviously never been to the city for you say that, it is actually hyper urban.

I think he means compared to a NYC,Hong Kong,Tokyo Hyper urban and Toronto is not in that league.
If you can still see surface parking in the city,its not on that level.

[King of Kensington]

Originally Posted by Othello Is Here

I think he means compared to a NYC,Hong Kong,Tokyo Hyper urban and Toronto is not in that league.
If you can still see surface parking in the city,its not on that level.

Said US Northeast, not NYC specifically or the world's largest cities.

I don't think Boston or Philly are "in that league" either.

[Othello Is Here]

Originally Posted by King of Kensington

Said US Northeast, not NYC specifically or the world's largest cities.

I don't think Boston or Philly are "in that league" either.

True but NYC,BOS,PhiL are more densely populated and built than Toronto. Really depends on what you mean by in that league