@@warrenmacdonald3463 not true at all. The prices are increasing because there is more and more demand to live there and supply can barely keep up. It has the highest demand of all of Canada which wouldn't be the case if it was getting less livable How does it lack culture and beauty? It has gorgeous skyline lots of cultures one of the most multicultural cities tons of beautiful food people attractions and business opportunities.
Canada would merge with America sooner than you think and it started with alaska and then go with Alberta then the whole Canada but first greenland ,which they have confirmed their independency in next 5 to 10 years and their new elected governor stated America would be the only country we sell our land to since our young ones have inclination toward America and everything we have is because of America....
I have been asking for a shoutout to this city for years. Very glad to finally see it happen. IMHO, architecturally speaking, there are many more projects that are worth mentioning here, that maybe might necessitate a part 2! Mirvish+Gehry, Sky Tower by Pinnacle, Sugar Wharf, East Harbour, Villiers Island, YSL Residences and so many more will change the face of this city forever. We are already more populous than Chicago, and are about to make the skyline reflect that.
Getting kinda tired of these clickbait titles. Your product is quality enough and you'd think your audience would be quality enough that you could trust them to click without being so Buzzfeed about it. Kinda makes me feel like I'm in bad company when vids are titled like this, like you think your audience is stupid, low-attention span, lowest-common-denominator types
The biggest issue in the us and Canada are in my opinion the missing of middle housing, which is restricted by zoning. If the zoning wouldn't be that strict, the market would adjust better to the need and thus more affordable housing.
Yeah, its pretty obvious but it´s either a) heritage feelings or b) the car lobby that makes Canadians stick to that zoning. A walkable neighbourhoods has so much pros but if a person never experienced that its hard to vote for this.
Its not enough. In Europe we have middle housing everywhere and the prices are skyrocketing. I see only 2 solutions: regulation on how many houses/apartments can a person/company buy or massive social housing development funded by the gov. Or maybe a combination. And by massive i mean massive. After single payer healthcare maybe its time for single payer housing. Or atleast voluntary public housing "insurence" for those who want it.
@@jurajkolnik7335 In US and Canada, most cities and states/provinces have absurd amounts of land to work with. It's just that we wasted it all on 1/4 acre (1000 m²) lots for single houses with big garden plots and huge roads for heavy car traffic. European countries may still have housing space issues even with more intelligent urban planning because most Euro countries are very small. I think urban planning would solve many if not most of the housing issues in the US and Canada. But first you have to talk all the people into it who were brainwashed into thinking having a house in the suburbs and commuting by car 45 mins each way to work is the dream
@@jurajkolnik7335 Its true. May sound stupid but maybe some places should start to think about "investment-free" neighbourhoods. Where the state/the city and the communitites really start to create, develop and maintain their neighbourhoods for themselves and visitors. As long as space is something to gamble with, people with have a problem to find affordable housing.
Good for B1M for digging deep for why Toronto is building massive building in certain spaces and not in the yellow belt. Focusing the video on not just the One.
I’ve been regularly traveling to Toronto since 2007 for work. There is always so much construction going on. The city feels quite a bit different now than it did 15 years ago.
As someone who deals with skyscraper wind every day in Toronto I really appreciate them adding wind considerations for the common people walking around the urban palaces which are probably planned for this building.
Dear North Americans in the replies, You're late to the party. Relax; wind considerations are in most cities mandated by law and are essentially part of pedestrian design 101.
I enjoy living in Toronto. Made a nice life here with loads of work, a nice but ancient house and a great neighbourhood filled with a diverse group of mostly friendly, and interesting people Everything I want or need within a 5 min walk, transit options galore and even close to highways. Growing up in Rural Canada I had a hate on for Toronto just like everybody else but after 16 years here, I've really grown fond of the place. Its got plenty of issues but is a pretty fantastic place to live in my experience.
Toronto definitely needs missing middle, mid-rise, and anything else that is relatively dense while not being insanely expensive to build all throughout the city and region. This way policies to control some costs or have affordable subsidized housing or the city/province building social housing themselves can be feasible. Also, many single family homes could even be converted into multifamily units without much change if regulations allowed it. The US and Canada are not going to solve the housing crisis with supertalls but with a loosening of restrictions on what can be built where, while also having intervention by government to control pricing/provide housing for those most in need.
this is why doug ford winning another term is tragic for ontario. complete disregard for the housing crisis. the feds can spend all they want trying to fix it but without zoning changes the problem will persist
Seems like zoning is a problem across all of North America. Is it home owners who advocate for these laws to keep up the prices of their homes? I don't know just kind of guessing.
Minor note to add is that The One has applied for a height increase to 338M. There are renderings for this increase and the tower looks much more balanced with the top section full sized.
I went to live in Toronto in 1970 and there was one, yes ONE, skyscraper and it was the Toronto Dominion Center which is made up of three buildings but one topping at 54 floors where there is a restaurant. It is now dwarfed by the surrounding buildings. I left Toronto in 1980 and at the time I lived in a prestigious condo by the Granite Club at Yonge and St. Clair. By then several skyscrapers had been built including the CN Tower. However, in 40 years the city has been completely transformed.
Yonge and st clair is my neighbourhood and its completely different now. There are even more changes coming now with multiple beautifully designed high-rises (one deslile) and ‘saint clair place’.
Just like Manhattan, it will become impossible for anyone to live in with rents totaling several thousand a month while simultaneously having a massive homelessness problem.... Oh wait, that's how it is already! They really are ahead of the game!
@@ayoCC Lots of rich, white "liberals" who want to end homelessness as long as it's done in someone else's backyard. They wouldn't want to interact with the POORS, ew, and drive down property values? Better block all new construction of actually affordable housing and just keep those people homeless.
New york doesn't allow dense development around Brooklyn's downtown, it is the sole reason why it's so expensive. Blame the activists who believe preserving 100 year old single family brownstones is worth the hundreds of thousands of displacements that occur due to rising rents.
@@daikon711 There's plenty of new construction in Brooklyn. Prices unfortunately are sky high. Your argument about not enough dense development would stand if not for the number of empty apartments wile landlords are keeping the prices high. It's simply rentier capitalism eating society from within, nothing else.
It’s definitely booming at a crazy rate, unfortunately the city is becoming painfully unaffordable and the architecture of all these towers is very bland.
The one is a perfect example of everything wrong with this boom. Fuckers tore down historic buildings night before the committee meeting, the builder has a history of being shady af and so on.
@@TheBodiesInTheWaterBeckons yea what we should be aspiring to do from Manhattan is building a great transit network, building the walk up apartments etc. Instead we are taking everything that's bad about it and shoving it into this city.
I lived in Buffalo, NY for 17 years, and always enjoyed my regular visits to Toronto. But I’ve lived in Phoenix now since 2004, and my last visit to Toronto was in 2006. I am utterly blown away by the massive growth in the downtown core. And I thought the city was in a building boom THEN! Can’t wait to get back there to visit friends again, once I get my passport renewed. But it’ll definitely feel different from my last visit…
+1 for mentioning zoning. If all the single-family housing zoning were switched to medium-density/medium-rise housing we could more sustainably solve this issue.
@@emeraldbonsai There's lots of single family home neighbourhoods in prime locations that are aging and ripe for redevelopment. However, because of government inaction on zoning, those opportunities that exist RIGHT NOW are being missed. Look at Willowdale around Yonge Street in North York. We already have a lively mixed use strip along Yonge Street, and the old bungalows around them are slowly being sold off. Those could have been bought out by developers for intensification. But instead, they are being sold to rich families to build mansions, sealing that area off to redevelopment for generations to come.
If you listen to the podcast 99 Percent Invisible, literally the last episode delved into this. Also went into the historical context of why sprawl is the way it is and why there is a missing middle. Spoiler alert: racism! (Can't say much better things about the City I live in, as well [Mississauga] :S )
This was so cool to see my city featured in a B1M video. I'd never even heard of this project until now. My dad said that from his office window he could always see at least a dozen cranes in the city. I always loved the feeling of driving into the city on the highway, like as you drive in the buildings become taller all of a sudden.
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I am proud the say I am part of The One and other skyscrapers projects in Toronto and the GTA. Fabricating and welding the structural steel has been an amazing challenge. Having my fingerprint on this historical project is very surreal.
Thank you for mentioning the ridiculous amount of land zoned for exclusively single family homes in Toronto. As cool as skyscrapers are, they really shouldn't be necessary in a city with sane zoning.
Plus no new developments in the yellow belt, no major ones, make the neighbourhoods so stale and boring.. me and my friends have nothing to do locally. The main reason why I was born in the east end and I’m moving to Amsterdam, Toronto is not for the young.
Contrary to popular belief high rises that house more people are often cheaper than other forms of housing, however I do agree that zoning does need to be reformed as not everyone wants to live in a high rise
Toronto needs to understand it’s the next Chicago and not the next New York. They have a very long way to go before they can be the next New York and they need to truly understand this
Indeed, even with the exit of folks during the pandemic and our post pandemic time, NYC continues to draw people and is hence marching towards a population of 9 million, in a metro area of ovee 21 million.
1) The most important thing they can do to solve the housing shortage is to change the zoning laws to allow more housing density. 5:37 shows the scale of these zones 2) Hope they won't build super high rises near CN tower, because currently buildings close to CN tower are shorter, creating that unique Toronto skyline 3) Excellent video!!
Moved to Toronto 22 years ago. The changes have been insane and it is just starting. More in the pipeline for approval than even being built. Not to mention 3 new subway lines.
One thing I wish the video touched on more was the periphery skyline...something that you seldom see. The downtown core is not the only booming skyscraper area. Areas like Yonge-Eg, Humber Bay, VCC, Square One, Golden Mile, etc, are all going through massive building booms, and combined they rival downtown.
Manhattanization refers to vertical growth of downtown/other nodes and the sky high population density, amenities, and energy that result. It's not meant to infer that Toronto is becoming like New York or that it wants to mimic New York. Toronto is becoming a bigger better version of itself ....and that's precisely what it should aim for.
nyc is a total shithole compared to toronto I've lived in both. sure the winters are more harsh in toronto. but not having to worry about violent crime, the air you breathe, or the water you drink is very underrated in cities this big. nyc feels old and outdated compared to toronto. the fact that new yorkers are mostly miserable and angry and torontonians are generally nice and happy says it all about these two cities.
@@lepoldbuttersstotchive spent a good amount of time all around new york and seen very few rats and noticed almost no smells, nor crime. Idk how people develop these notions of NYC. Ive had nothing but a good time there. Could be chance
I'm a New Yorker who's been to Toronto for the first time earlier this month. I will say the streets are a lot cleaner, but the buildings are definitely more "monolithic" and the streets aren't as chaotic.
@@thisismarkbro Theatre? (There's tons of it.) Festivals? Walking in the ravines/Don Trail/Waterfront? Paddling the Humber (Toronto Adventures)? Seeing some of the programming at Harbourfront? Checking out museums/galleries of all sizes and interests? Catching the Jays/TFC/Rock (Rock games are so much fun and affordable if you've never experienced one)?
My personal opinion is Toronto is not that great. Not sure how other cities are like, but I felt it was a concrete jungle. Just building and roads. Really loved Vancouver though as it felt like they included greenery into their design throughout the city
I go there every day for uni, nothing special lol. Vancouver's city layout is a lot better. There's nothing that feels like it fits in Toronto. It just seems like people place buildings wherever they could find the space to and the designs are so generic and bland. No personality in the city skyscraper architecture.
man, this is a hard video to watch amidst the serious housing crisis happening in southwestern Ontario. How many of these new developments are rentals? If they aren't, how can an average Torontonian begin to afford $600k+ for a one bedroom condo? It is known that many neighbouring cities of Toronto have grown in response to people driving in for work, since the city itself is unaffordable, contributing to the congestion issue.
The affordability issue is caused by people bedding 3 or 4 times overasking price, on older homes some are even Falling apart, while these homes are way overpriced by at least 10 times more to begin with , that gives everyone an idea of if his cardboard junker has sold for millions so is mine, this creates a domino effects on the entire City market, where once only mansions in designated areas of town exclusively sold for millions, while everything else around sold for a much more reasonable price, those days are long gone, but they could be coming back the market is desperately due a correction and interests rates are finally raining in their toll.
it filters over the whole province. There is nothing that is not effected by this, in NWO, it effects us as well. Affordable housing is almost non-existence. I lived inToronto for 25 years, there is no way I could live there now, and I am considered higher middle income.
Building a bunch of skyscrapers doesnt make you New York. New York has such a rich history, that rose from a long line of significant events. Its woven into the fabric of the city, the population, the culture, is so different from any other area. Not to mention one of the most distinct geographical footprints on the planet.
This was exactly the point I was trying to make with my friend, there's no good paying jobs, that was why I rushed into crypto and I see crypto as a safe heaven
Are those towers really for immigrants because that sounds very unlikely. Looks like a reprise of billionaires row with it's new shiny money laundering towers. Remember when they said those objects were built to combat a growing housing issue? Nobody lives in those towers, definetly not the ones needing a home. I am not being critical towards these towers; I think they are wonderful pieces of achitecture and engineering and I am glad these structures exist. However I am critical of US's and Canada's zoning laws that prevent affordable housing from being built. Canadians love boasting about how progressive they are, yet they can't get their cities in order. It's easy to call yourself progressive socially but stay deeply conservative politically.
Not all the towers are those large luxury towers. Most buildings are condos between 10 - 30 floors which are full of young professionals, students, etc. There could be a much better job of building new units for families as well. But don't believe the rumours about the buildings being empty. Only a small amount are vacant. I'm from within the city, pretty much every person I know (age 25-35) lives in an apartment if they don't live with their parents. And most of them live in relatively new high rises in urban core or periphery core. But yes, building actual affording family housing is a big challenge.
Like London, they are heavily bought up as foreign investments. I’ve not lived in Toronto now for a hot minute, but lots of Chinese money is my understanding. Toronto’s low density legacy neighbourhoods are where the soul of the city used to be found. But they have just become gentrified and kind of sterilised. I have family there and one has a house purchased in 2005 for 300k which is now 1.5 million, and one house that was under 200k in the late 90’s and it is similar. Previously those neighbourhoods were ethnic enclaves, but not rally anymore.
@@me-nah3343 Most of what you said is true. But Toronto is not getting less ethnic. The city is full of ethnic enclaves and always has been, and just like the past, they constantly shift around. The core of the Chinese diaspora has shifted in parts of the city multiple times.
Toronto definitely gives me more Chicago vibes than NY. When I was there the feel, the skyline, the density, everything felt like Chicago to me. If it weren’t for the CN tower, the skyline looks like Chicago. Calling it a New York is a stretch.
@@mbaham85 because it’s nowhere near as dense or vibrant. It would take at least a century to get near that population. If you’ve been to Chicago you would see why I say its closer to it in feeling to that city.
Toronto is the third largest city in NA, NYC is 2nd. Toronto is growing at a much faster rate. Saying it would take a century for it to reach the same population as NYC demonstrates a misunderstanding of basic math.
@@ooferdoofer7091 lol not sure where you get your “math” from but Toronto is definitely not the third largest city. It’s metro area barely makes the top 10. Not sure how you misunderstand literal facts that take 0.5 seconds to look up.
The "New York" scenes never fooled me because I'm from Toronto and I can either recognize the locations or the obvious traffic lights that don't look American. Kind of ruins the movies for me sometimes unfortunately....
If people had any idea of the amount of location changing in the international film industry they would be stunned. Filming locations are routinely substituted around the planet. I've no idea why the focus is always only Toronto/New York.
@@bobbbxxx because people that don't live in the city, like imagine living there, it even if they never move - no one dreams about moving to a cul de sac
Given all I read about affordability of housing in Toronto, that's probably the only way to go: just shove all those working class peasants into Ontario. That way the city can become more and more expensive while the people actually working for generating all that wealth can commute for half their non-working hours.
my parents bought our house here in toronto in the late 90s for less than a fifth of its current value… meanwhile, the outrageous rent in the new condos being built downtown is forcing many people to spend the majority of their income on housing in a way that limits their contribution to the broader economy. unless we reform our zoning laws to make more room for mixed use housing and stop building luxury condos that even the middle class can’t afford, the housing crisis will only worsen. that’s what the frenetic development of the toronto skyline actually symbolizes
Hmm, Canada majorly sucks though, I can’t imagine paying competitive prices to live there. That country’s main resource is just being next to United States.
@@errolmacdonald3256 Thank you for making my point. And doing so on RU-vid, an American company’s service on an operating system that was also designed here, because no innovation happens there. Instead of disagreeing and saying how great Canada is, you use a tragic shooting by a mentally ill person to just say Canada is less worse, thats all you got and you don’t even have that as shootings happen there too. It goes to show, that country has all the benefits of being in a far away from war, safe area with plenty of resources, but has none of the ambition, sophistication and innovation that would normally come with that. Canada just sits above US and benefits from this country’s highs, and laughs at its lows. You guys suck.
Love Toronto getting more YT attention! We have some really interesting transit projects like the Eglinton LRT and the Ontario line that could make for good B1M videos.
Love Toronto! Have lived in the city my nearly 72 years. Wonderful city; lots of green space, diverse community neighbourhoods - great restaurants & shopping.Close to Lake Ontario beaches, very walkable, bicycle or take the streetcar/subway to enjoy this vibrant city.
Hey! Come over to the Netherlands! We are sure you would be in a shock of how walkable and green this country's cities are compared to Toronto :) If you can do it, of course, assuming you are 72 years old, this won't be easy for everybody at that age :)
@@hanfucolorful9656 Coldest temperature ever recorded in Toronto was -33°C in 1859. Average low temperature during coldest part of the year (January) is -2°C.
There was no Toronto of course in 1812. It was the township of York and was the southern part of York County. Toronto was incorporated in 1834 as a city and was carved out of a portion of York Township. The township continually shrunk has pieces of it were absorbed by Toronto, East York and North York as they evolved or were born out of smaller municipalities such as Leaside, respectively. In the Sixties, the township became the Borough of York and later the City of York within Metropolitan Toronto, both of which are now defunct thanks to Mike Harris' Megacity.
The biggest problem is that Toronto's salaries haven't caught up to the cost of living. Having lived in both New York and Toronto, I definitely feel more pressure in Toronto.
Don't forget to mention that Torontonians don't have to worry about paying for private health care insurance, or dealing with co-paying and cap limits of coverage. And don't forget to mention the sky-high cost of living in New York. It's all relative.
@@bobbbxxx But the average New Yorker earns double what the average earns on top of being a top 5 world financial center. NYC can justify its high cost of living.
Love seeing Toronto on the channel. Ive lived in the city all my life. I love the diversity, art, culture, fashion, food, Toronto has it all for a city girl like me.
Don't get your hopes up on that. Our current provincial government, which is poised for reelection next month by a comfortable margin, just recently and very publicly decided against this.
Canada is no longer building homes. I live in BC and the only things going up here are tiny cheaply made townhouses or Agenda 2030 condos wherein you can hear (and smell) your neighbours through the paper thin walls. They sell them for nearly a million dollars now on average, which is guaranteed thanks to the insane immigration rates.
I was there a few years ago and in the centre it was all glass and steel interspersed with old buildings. The problem with these skyscrapers is they are NOT tailored to accommodate normal people who work in and around the city, they are for people who earn lots of money. They should be concentrating in building homes that most people will live in, not the rich.
Same in Shenzhen, I remembered as a kid back in the early 90s, the tallest building was the Guomao building at 500 feet, with a rotating restaurant on the 40th top floor. Now that building is absolutely dwarfed by any of the surrounding buildings and appears tiny. Going back in 2005, there's Shun Hing square which was twice as tall, and 2017 with the Ping An center which is 2000 feet tall. There are over 300 buildings there over 600 feet tall. Shenzhen has become just as expensive as NYC yet the average wage is a mere $1500 per month. A basic 500 sqft apartment costs $800000 in Shenzhen for reference. Shenzhen started out as a fishing village 50 years ago and now is as big as NYC
I was born and raised in Toronto. I've lived there for 43 years. I've seen the changes with my own eyes. This year I finally left, I moved away to the Niagara region as the urbanization and the crippling cost of housing in the city has become too much to bear. Traffic is atrocious, the public transit system, while getting better is long overdue by several decades. Crime is also an issue from vandalism and theft to what SEEMS like at least one murder everyday. Many neighbourhoods which are based on single family homes are now seeing several apartment/condo buildings going up taking away sunshine and openness and privacy. Anywhere there is an empty lot, or a mall is getting torn down for more highrise construction. As much as there is people looking to live there, there is also almost as many looking to leave. Toronto's high prices have caused a massive ripple effect on surrounding regions, having property costs triple in most cases in places like Muskoka, Haliburton and Naiagra. I miss my old city but as we all know nothing stays the same. Great video.
The 1980's and early 1990's is when Toronto had the highest murder rate, around 4 per 100,000. the murder rate has been falling ever since and has been below 2.5 per 100,00 since 2006. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2021001/article/00017/c-g/c-g01-eng.png
Of note, most people going to downtown actually commute by transit, especially pre pandemic. What needs to be changed is increasing suburb-suburb transit use, which is why projects like the Eglinton Crosstown and Scarborough Subway extension are being built. In addition, transit capacity in Downtown is oversaturated (pre pandemic), so a new downtown subway is being constructed. Ultimately it's not enough for the amount of residents planned on being added to the city, and the city needs to get serious about an additional downtown subway, and trunk from a new suburb.
Hopefully this means they will invest more on transportation infrastructure which will expand out, I'd love to have more transportation options from Niagara to Toronto to Ottawa/Quebec.
Its price does not really matter as long as people live in them - they will take pressure off of other housing, ultimately bringing prices down. The only scenario where they don't help is the one where they remain empty.
@@cashewnuttel9054 no, it helps for literally everyone, because there are fewer people competing for the cheaper houses and apartments. If you have 105 people bidding for 100 cheap apartments, the landlords feast. If someone builds 6 more apartments... it does not really matter who they are for as long as someone from that 105 jumps into them, which now leaves 99 people chasing 100 rentals. Suddenly the renters are in control.
@vliduu zeeb Wow that’s Very interesting , it’s definitely a mix of races mainly Caribbean, whites and Tamil and every other mix , gives me uk vibes mixed with the states
development between Toronto (Can) and Melbourne (Aus) is vary comparable and similar atm, interesting hard to tell which is going through the largest construction phase.
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This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
Toronto is not trying to become another New York or Chicago. In fact I think most Torontonians would shudder at the thought. The city is trying to find its own path and identity like any other city so comparative criticisms are kind of useless.
@@beentheredonethat8280 not sure which specifically said that but I watched a documentary stating that several architect designers were making their skyscrapers and interior similar to the New York City skyscraper design
There will never be another New York. People can say whatever they will, but it has a lot of unique traits that can never be replicated. It's not about buildings, the number of people, the history, or even the culture and diversity. People who haven't lived here may never be able to understand, but there's something intrinsic about New York that is incomparable to anywhere else in the world. It has a soul that absolutely cannot be duplicated. And before someone inevitably gets offended or complains about how "New York is awful and only an idiot would like it", Once again, you just can't begin to understand it if you're not from here. And I'm not saying there are no other great cities either. I've been to a lot of great cities in my life, and there are a lot of fantastic, amazing places, especially on an international scale. There just isn't another New York. No other city can compare or come close to having the specific heart and personality that this city has.
New York is the city it is because of features missing in Toronto - perfect trade area on the sea, center of commerce and finance, "old money", incredible diversity and the presence of numerous business interests. And then there's the cold.
Mixed use spaces have unfortunately been made all but illegal here in the U.S. due to outdated zoning laws, which is why urban sprawl and expansive suburbs are so common outside of our cities. Hopefully we can change that overtime as studies have shown that suburban “communities” are more insular, often leading to less communal interaction and contributing greatly to feelings of loneliness among suburban residents due to the lack of these mixed use and communal spaces. This also has the effect of increasing carbon emissions, subsequent air pollution and traffic congestion from commuters driving in and out of the city to work every day from their homes in the suburbs. We need to rezone for mixed use, as they are more conducive for urban development and growth as well as being simply healthier for those living within said communities.
Holy smokes, as someone who lived in and follows intently Miamis development, I'm blown away by the amount of development going on for Toronto. 100 under construction, 300 approved? That's wild. Would still love to see a video on Miami, too. There are multiple super talls planned or under construction, and there's an interesting interplay in desired heights and the fact that the downtown area is in the path of the airport, so height approval is a dance with the FAA. And then you also have to consider the hurricane-proofing of buildings
I would like to see a video on that as well. I think the new airport will only be budget airlines, and the existing one will continue to be the primary.
Toronto is a huge city, right behind New York City. It's getting bigger and bigger. In the near future, The population of Ontario will be over 20 million.
When I was growing up in the 1950's the tallest building in Toronto was the Royal York hotel, exceeded in height by the squat Sun Life building in Montreal.
Actually there one building in Toronto taller than the Royal York Hotel. It is the 34 story CBIC building that was built around the same time. It was Canada’s tallest building.
Toronto was home for 15 years, I cashed in on the property boom, retired early and now live in SE Asia, do miss elements of Toronto, though I don't miss the winter or the traffic
Montreal is 400 years old, best quality of life in Canada , more dense population and walkable and biking city Bests modern and faster subway and it is a masterpiece. Montreal is the capital of acnadian culture, architecture, history, multicultural , best food and fun since people from Toronto come to Montreal to have fun
@@thebabbler8867 yeah, I see that Miami is started to be on the ring. I forgot New York. But other American city need an upgrade. Image of skyline is also important to show put economy
@@thisismarkbro You also need a damn good car. Public transport in Toronto might be better than New York but it's still pretty shit tbh. The roads these days are rough and far too crowded. Everything's becoming less affordable and more terrible for the common man.
Whenever you see any title that has the words "the next __________" - from Tesla, Apple, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Michael Jordan... it's never the case at all. Like ever.
