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Originally Posted by lio45
Any metro area that's on some sort of border (including oceans and lakes) will have its downtown core "on the periphery".
Detroit looks exactly like Toronto, the curve of the "unbuildable/inaccessible area" is almost perfectly identical, even including its cardinal points orientation; if you laid one on top of the other you'd see they're physically identical. They can't sprawl south nor southeast, but they do sprawl north and northwest.
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That's not really true. NYC, L.A., San Francisco, Miami, and maybe Boston and Seattle, are all located on coasts but have developed area radiating in most directions away from downtown.
Also, as I said above, Toronto and Chicago are located on coasts that are more straight so development goes out from downtown more evenly in either direction.