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Originally Posted by Doady
Canadians are the ones who should envy the US. NYC is still #1 in terms skyscrapers and density and urbanity and transit. Even if Toronto had 20 million people it would not be anywhere close to the same level as NYC.
It is weird though such a big gap between NYC and the rest of country, like NYC vs. OKC, it's like night and day. Toronto isn't really that different from the rest of Canada. USA is known for widening gaps, Canada isn't really like that.
Canada has nothing to compare to OKC but it has nothing to compare to NYC either.
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The GTA is more like a Miami on steroids than anything like NYC. This is partly because it's a much newer megacity composed of a patchwork of freeways , subdivisions, business parks, industrial parks, plazas, arterial roads, tower-in-the-park apartments, and skyscraper (edit mostly highrise condominium) nodes that knit together a bunch of old former towns and streetcar suburbs.
As far as I know New York dosent have retail-less arterial roads (bounded by backyards, fences and landscaping on either side ) that are so commonplace in the suburban GTA and 905.
The prewar stock and centralized nature of Montréal and the swaths of high density walkup apartment homes , make it the closest Canadian cousin to New York as opposed to Toronto in terms of built form.