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."
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Toronto's farsighted vision
Source:
The Globe and Mail, September 23, 2002
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