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Toronto has a couple of hundred cranes at least.

Not according to the latest statcan estimates, it's back up to well over 100,000. http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=0510056&&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=31&tabMode=dataTable&csid=

Dundas Square was never meant to be a beautiful park, it was meant to be an urban square surrounded by garish advertising, and that's exactly what it is. I say bring on more garish advertising and even more screens -- let's really give Times Square a run for its money. If you don't like it it...

Took a pic of the application posted on site, the larger corner signs actually span the first and second storeys and the smaller ones (5 on the North side, 2 on the West side) run between the first and second storey.

Nine more video screens are to be added to the new Shopper's at the former Hard Rock location -- 2 large square ones spanning the second and third storey at the Southwest corner of the building, and 7 small, rectangular ones running lengthwise between the 2nd and third floor windows on the North...

The A&A records sign was beside Sam's to the North. Sam's big spinning disc sign was originally just one record, but a second was added later and the smaller spinning discs were added when it expanded in to the old neighbouring bank building.

^ Ah, cool. Any more details on that?

I noticed they're dismantling the billboards and videoscreen on top of the Hard Rock Cafe/future Shoppers Drug Mart flagship location.

There aren't very many American cities that are more heavily graffitied than Toronto. New York or Montreal might be the only cities in the U.S. and Canada that compare.

^ The Oshawa and Hamilton urban areas (or population centres) are contiguous with the Toronto urban area, but they are counted separately because they are different CMAs. Even so, all three are indeed a single urban area.

Here's the application for the video screens again: http://app.toronto.ca/ApplicationStatus/details.do?folderRsn=3944202 Proposal to replace the existing media tower signage with two illuminated LED screens displaying electronic moving copy.The two proposed screens, displayed in a V-shape and...

^ Toronto looks nothing like Dallas.

Is that megatall in Chicago even a real proposal? I don't see any mention of it in the Chicago development forums on SSP. Chicago does have a grander downtown, since it was planned and built up in a different era when big American cities at the time could get things like that done. Chicago now...

18 storeys and 147 m? Does not compute.

http://app.toronto.ca/ApplicationStatus/details.do?folderRsn=3944202

They were taking the tarp down when I walked by several hours ago.

Too much blank space on the upper levels of the Nordstrom facade, slap some big LED screens on there to liven things up.

Of course people in other cities think their transit is the worst, most people are pretty stupid and can't see the big picture. Nor do they seem to understand that using another cities transit a few times on a visit without encountering any problems isn't the same thing as using it every day and...

The crane is for the St. Michael's hospital expansion, not Massey Tower.

There sure are a hell of a lot of people walking along Yonge and patronizing all the various businesses and restaurants at 7pm on a Tuesday night considering how the street is such a miserable, dangerous hellhole that "looks like shit"!