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    Toronto Expo 2025

    Metroman, as usual, I find it a pleasure to read you, probably because we are so similar. My self-caution about this bid is coming from the reactions of John Tory. I'm a guy who has travelled a bit. On my more recent returns home, I've been delighted to see/feel what Toronto really is. It...
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    Toronto Expo 2025

    Twaddle, cruddy crap. Stable long-term investments I support, but the reality is that here, that just never happens. All the while, the fair is something that could get another dimension to this town. I believe there are benefits to be had from it. Too bad Tory & Co. are already dumping on...
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    Toronto Expo 2025

    Count me in as "for" winning a bid and having a great world's fair, but I will be truly frank with all of you --- I think the bid is already dead in the water and I mean it -- dead, due to those around us who feel that we must first of all achieve perfection as a society before having the fair...
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    Rob Ford's Toronto

    Bloody goddamit anyway ... I cracked open the Star website and there it is, a picture of the former hizonner RoFo. Dammit, didn't need that. Did you guys, and everyone else, know that Rob Ford is dead?!!! Dead! I know, because I heard the giant toilet-flush sound on March 22, 2016. He's dead.
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    Rob Ford's Toronto

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/sunday-review/why-us-cities-should-envy-toronto-for-electing-rob-ford.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
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    Toronto Chelsea Green (was 33 Gerrard) | 297.25m | 90s | Great Eagle | a—A

    I'm lucky enough to have a work contract in Barcelona for the second winter in a row. One of the world's most beautiful cities, perhaps the most. Regardless of that I'm watching UT, from so far away. I felt I must react -- you sure read some weird things here on UT. I suggest that everyone just...
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    Toronto Toronto City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | Perkins&Will

    I'll add my voice to the chorus of boos, concerning this revitalization attempt. All those years of dishevelment and upheaval for this outcome? Hard to believe. I can't be as diplomatic as MetroMan (I wish that I had that sort of skill). Most of you have summed up the shortcomings. No need...
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    Toronto Hotel X (was Hotel in the Garden) | ?m | 27s | Exhibition Place | NORR

    You know, darlings, I haven't had the desire to post anythin on UT for the longest time. Maybe too busy. Maybe too disheartened with some of the developments taking place in this fair city these days. That said, feel that I must opine here. The only worse development in Toronto than this...
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    Toronto Pinnacle One Yonge | 345.5m | 105s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini

    Just chimin' in here after a long absence. Not much time to write stuff, lately. - The design / space utilization at ground level here is quite encouraging. Good city building. - The main tower, well, let's see. I am lamenting the loss of the cylindrical tower. What the heck happened...
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    Toronto Toronto City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | Perkins&Will

    I can only agree. I've visited a few times during PanAm and it's been a great experience. I caught "Trombone Shorty" at NPS / Panamania last night, what a great performance. Must say that I was thunderstruck at the tasteful use of the square by the PanAm people vs. the junky look that the...
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    Toronto Concord Sky | 299m | 85s | Concord Adex | Kohn Pedersen Fox

    This is quality. Excellent.
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    Mayor John Tory's Toronto

    Don't go thinking that Harper's offer is sincere. It's pure electioneering to make him look friendly to the 'urban agenda'. He won't honour this if reelected. This is all pure crud.
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    Mayor John Tory's Toronto

    You've gotta be bloody joking. There was an opportunity to improve this city. All the experts were in agreement that the boulevard was the way to go - former planners for this city, the architecture faculty of the U of T, even former mayors. Not to mention the architecture critics of the...
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    Shabby Public Realm

    Here's the thing about Toronto's shabby public realm, which definitely exists. It will cost money to fix this problem. Big $. But the money is there. Mayor Tory can find it for us, and just fix this problem. He has apparently found 1/5 billion bucks so that his favoured 'hybrid' Gardiner...
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    Roads: Gardiner Expressway

    So John Tory now becomes the anti-urban mayor. Tory will be wise not to call this a victory for himself; if he has anything going on upstairs he will know immediately that he has furthered the suburban-urban divide in this city, and he'll have lost a significant number of support in the...
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    Roads: Gardiner Expressway

    And that's the whole thing. There is no way that Tory can claim "leadership" on this. He's furthered the great divide between the city and its suburbs. Not a great leader at all - he's a guy in love with yesterday's solutions. It's a sorry mess for Toronto.
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    Mayor John Tory's Toronto

    Yup.
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    Mayor John Tory's Toronto

    This is so difficult. It's hard to deny that this has been one of my observations of late, too. But I don't want to pounce on Tory for this just now, I'm still cutting him just the tiniest bit of slack because Tory has demonstrated in other areas that he is a man of good will, and there is no...
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    Roads: Gardiner Expressway

    ^ and can you imagine a city going ahead with an elevated expressway without consulting the guidance and opinion of some planning staff and those who have architectural lookouts? You know, like, leaving it all up to politicians? Oh, yes, that's how we got the monstrously awful Gardiner in...
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    Toronto Toronto City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | Perkins&Will

    If I think about it enough, MetroMan, then I will get depressed, as per your comment. It is really hard to fathom that this city - a city which is taking in so much revenue from new development - has to justify these beautification efforts. Such a paltry sum is provided for keeping things tidy...

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