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Originally Posted by Nite
Toronto in 2030 will be quite a city.
if all the proposals are built Toronto would have 75% of the numbers of skyscrapers as New York has now or more than New York had in 2010.
I still feel that Toronto building boom is still very much under the radar for people outside of Canada however.
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It's really only skyscraper nerds on sites like this and some tourists who realize what's happening here. Toronto is going through one of those rare times when a city rockets ahead for decades and emerges at the other end a global powerhouse. If this boom can last another 30 years people might draw parallels to NYC 1850-1950 and LA 1900-2000.
If one takes inventory of 100m+ buildings the totals are telling. I used Greater Toronto Hamilton
(BLUE) and the New York CSA
(GREEN) as it speaks better to the shifts happening in each urban region. Limiting analysis to city cores negates a lot of the growth occurring in each. I used the SSP database. I'm not sure how accurate it is but this is what it says.
100m+ Buildings Completed:
866 vs 333
100m+ Buildings Completed + U/C:
905 vs 461
100m+ Buildings Completed + U/C + Proposed:
981 vs 849
Toronto: Toronto, Mississauga, Vaughan, Markham, Hamilton
New York City: New York, Fort Lee, Guttenberg, Jersey City, New Rochelle, Newark, North Bergen, West New York, Franklin Township, White Plains