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Toronto looks amazing. Looks like a mini Manhattan.
That's my town- It is a mini Manhattan built on recovered lake frontage...most of the southern end of town...It stretches northward up the Younge Street corridor for about 15 miles...then there are a chain of towns that run 60 miles north. For about 30 miles the gap between the towns have been close in the last 20 years. There is a huge urban sprawl north of town.
The water front shot is taken from Center Island- a spectacular Island park..that opens up on the south side to the expanse of Lake Ontario. There is even an Island community of cottages from the 50s that the city rent out...the other Island just to the west of Center Island has a small airport that was taken over recently by Porter Airlines...A short distance luxury service with prop driven air craft..There is a proposal to lengthen the landing strip so it can handle a small fleet of "quiet" whisper jet air craft. An airport right down town..cool.
Toronto is an expensive city and there are thousands of new luxury condos going up in the core and surrounding areas...even our poor residents have a decent quality of life. We have a conservative mayor and an ultra left wing city council....interesting stuff.
Having been to both cities a few times I have to go with Toronto. I'd place Toronto as the third or fourth nicest skyline in North America. Philadelphia would probably be around #7 in my opinion.
Toronto wins by a long shot just because of the CN Tower.
I agree. How can anything else compare with a 160 story tall tower? Plus its a really nicely designed structure. Without the CN tower, the Toronto skyline would be pretty unremarkable. But the tower makes it world class IMHO.
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