[Mister F]

Yonge and Eglinton isn't a pseudo downtown in the same way that newer centres are. The area was built out by the 1920s as a traditional mixed use urban neighbourhood, well before the car-oriented planning era. It's just an urban area that has seen later high rise development on a large scale. Even North York Centre was originally built in largely the same way a bit later.

There's a big difference between that and something like a Vaughan or Mississauga, which are attempts at taking suburban, car-oriented areas and turning them into downtowns.