What are some ideas or innovations that Toronto became the trendsetter for, and other cities copied?

[Armour]

Why would it be worn worldwide. It can only be worn in colder climates so obviously it won't be worn worldwide. I've seen plenty of them in the United States and parts of Europe, you know places where it's actually cold.

"Worldwide" doesn't literally encompass every nation, necessarily. I'm sure they're quite popular in Algeria.

How about hosers (not the term, but the Hockey Night in Canada watchin', Kim Mitchell rockin', Timbit lovin' chawbacons? Did they originate here? Toronto has a huge amount of urban yokels.

Was there anything on tv like Mr. Dressup, prior to 1967? He predated Mister Rogers Neighbourhood by a year.

 

[adma]

Was there anything on tv like Mr. Dressup, prior to 1967? He predated Mister Rogers Neighbourhood by a year.

Does stuff like Captain Kangaroo count?

 

[wild goose chase]

Mixed-traffic streetcars, especially after the Great American Streetcar Conspiracy? Successful freeway revolts?

Looks like Toronto is unique in North America in how much it has retained its original streetcar infrastructure -- don't know how other cities worldwide compare though.

Were highway revolts particularly successful in Toronto compared to elsewhere? I know Wikipedia isn't the best source, but it looks like highway revolts were common all throughout the 60s and 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_revolts

Also, wasn't Vancouver's even more successful?

 

[Armour]

Does stuff like Captain Kangaroo count?

Yeah, I guess it should. Captain Kangaroo goes all the way back to 1955; 12 years before Mr. Dressup.

 

[Armour]

How about the influence Don Mills has played in the creation of postwar subdivisions elsewhere?

 

[Johnny Au]

How about the influence Don Mills has played in the creation of postwar subdivisions elsewhere?

Don Mills is ultimately inspired by Levittown though.

 

[wild goose chase]

Don Mills is ultimately inspired by Levittown though.

Is it the oldest planned postwar "suburb"? I know it is labelled Canada's oldest planned community, more broadly speaking, but do "planned communities" as they are typically called really only start in the postwar period, as they are commonly defined (obviously deliberately planned cities go back ages to colonial times if not older in human civilization depending on how "planned" is defined).

 

[Armour]

Don Mills is ultimately inspired by Levittown though.

Then think of it as an innovation. Don Mills might even be a more successful example of a subdivision.

 

[Skeezix]

What an achievement.

Actually, it is.

 

[Skeezix]

Citytv was a trendsetter in the day, in terms of its approach to studios and anchor desks (or lack thereof), programming, videojournalism and on-camera diversity. It was copied by broadcasters the world over. Hard to believe today, given that the station is a shell of its former self.

 

[Skeezix]

The international competition for the new city hall in the late 1950s, and city hall's completion in 1965, inspired other city hall competitions and the design of civic buildings in Canada and the United States in the 1960s.

Tangentially related (in that its development almost led to the demolition of old city hall), wasn't the Toronto Eaton Centre the model for numerous other downtown/central shopping malls in the 1970s and 1980s, few of which ever achieved the success of the Toronto one?

 

[adma]

Don Mills is ultimately inspired by Levittown though.

In detail and "progressive" ambition, probably more Radburn than Levittown. Or the Greenbelt communities, or certain wartime developments like Oak Ridge. Or, for that matter, anything that can be uphelt as some kind of derivation from Ebenezer Howard's "Garden City" (and remember that the UK also had its massive builder-built subdivisions through the interwar years). Conversely, one might claim that Levittown's local impact is more felt in the general run of post-WWII/pre-Don Mills "CMHC subdivisions" around Toronto, not least in the prevalence of storey-and-a-half "Cape Cod" dwellings (think of a good deal of Reeve Oliver Crockford-era Scarborough). Don Mills was more ambitiously "contemporary" in architectural expression; yet even that had its parallels/precedents in California's "Eichler subdivisions", et al. And then there's that ultimate postwar derivative of Ebenezer Howard: the UK's "New Town" program...

 

[Armour]

In detail and "progressive" ambition, probably more Radburn than Levittown. Or the Greenbelt communities, or certain wartime developments like Oak Ridge. Or, for that matter, anything that can be uphelt as some kind of derivation from Ebenezer Howard's "Garden City" (and remember that the UK also had its massive builder-built subdivisions through the interwar years). Conversely, one might claim that Levittown's local impact is more felt in the general run of post-WWII/pre-Don Mills "CMHC subdivisions" around Toronto, not least in the prevalence of storey-and-a-half "Cape Cod" dwellings (think of a good deal of Reeve Oliver Crockford-era Scarborough). Don Mills was more ambitiously "contemporary" in architectural expression; yet even that had its parallels/precedents in California's "Eichler subdivisions", et al. And then there's that ultimate postwar derivative of Ebenezer Howard: the UK's "New Town" program...

That's all common knowledge among Ford Nationalists. Now try that in non-layman's terms.

 

[King of Kensington]

I think Don Mills (the SFHs at least) was built for a somewhat more upscale/white collar demographic than Levittown.

 

[GeneralGrievance]

The Guardian cites Toronto's Snakes and Lattes as one of the first and most prominent board game cafes in the world. Something we had way before London...
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jul/16/london-first-board-game-cafe-to-open-in-hackney