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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
It seems that several of the responses are completely misunderstanding this. The article is talking in terms of 150m+ towers and a tiny fraction of those are outside the core (certainly less than 1/10) and a tinier fraction are anything resembling towers-in-the-park. The TITP trend is mostly (entirely?) a sub 150m category from before the current boom.
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If you look at the chart, the article reaches its conclusions by counting nonexistent buildings. It concludes that Toronto has more towers than Chicago due to "proposed" which is not a thing. Chicago has far more actual, real towers of that height.
And this doesn't account for the relative difference in heights. Toronto's tallest tower would be the 8th tallest tower in Chicago. Toronto has six buildings above 250m, Chicago has 16. Chicago, consistently, has more towers at 250 ft. and higher.
https://www.emporis.com/statistics/t...toronto-canada
https://www.emporis.com/statistics/t...chicago-il-usa
Chicago has essentially no towers of 150m+ outside its core (maybe there's one or two, but basically none). Toronto has quite a few, almost certainly more than 10% of the overall total. Humber Bay, Mississauga, North York, Yonge-Eglinton all have such towers. Humber Bay, alone, has far more towers of such height that all of Chicagoland excluding the core.