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Originally Posted by ras_murphy
I try best not to involve personal emotions in here, but Toronto skyline is getting more and more look like skyline of Shanghai.
But what can you do about it? Both of them are the largest cities in the country, which suffered from the same symptom that every major largest city has...population expanding and city extending, endlessly. Toronto DO look like Shanghai now, i.e. tall and super tall residential buildings are mixing with tall and super tall office towers, sooner or later you can hardly identify a measureable skyline anymore because the whole city is an endless skyline lines with countless residential and office buildings. It is lucky today that Toronto still has financial district and Shanghai still has Pudong district. Enjoy it as much as you can because it is getting mixed up and out of order beyond a normal North American downtown can handle.
Once again, I feel sad about Toronto skyline, even though I will visit it in Spring 2015. Take as many photos as I can. I miss the early 2000s, it was still a normal downtown skyline view. Toronto skyline falls into my Foroldtimesake Subject, which is old is better than new.
Following Vancouver, another N.A. cities is becoming un-N.A. who are living those tall residential buildings anyway? Chinese. Really?
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I'm sorry, but do you really want cities to endlessly expand outwards in endless suburbs to the point where it takes someone an hour by car to commute to the city's core? Vertical mixed use buildings are the future of our cities. Not just North American cities, but all cities. We are running out of space, we are maintaining a delicate balance between urban areas, arable land and wilderness which produces the oxygen we breath and maintains the planet's ecosystem. By the end of my lifetime, I HOPE cities do indeed become endless skyline, why? Because this is simply the most efficient use of space.
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