[niwell]

When I was young coming from Calgary I was shocked first at Toronto, and then Montreal in terms of being able to enter the subway in a fairly urban area, ride for what seemed like a relatively long time and then get off in a more or less equally urban area. In this case both cities fit into the endless streets categories. Toronto definitely has a downright huge downtown though so it's hard to say how it fits in. Both are probably a mix in the end though.

For smaller cities around the same size - Calgary is a big city downtown whereas Ottawa is more of an endless streets. At least if you count Byword market area as streets and not downtown. But still you have areas like Hintonburg whereas the Calgary equivalent would be 1960s suburbia.