Toronto's Vision

24 September 2002 - 7:00am

The Globe and Mail calls Toronto's new official city plan "utterly sensible."

"Neighbourhoods that spread out behind the endless blocks of low-density muffler shops, car lots, pet stores and doughnut drive-ins that define so much of Toronto are undeniably quiet. Think of the disturbance to the scene if hundreds of people moved into five-storey condos perched over little restaurants and dry cleaners along nearby avenues served by streetcars that took most of these residents to work."

Source: The Globe and Mail, September 23, 2002
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.