Downtown or not downtown?

[King of Kensington]

You pretty much nailed it. Polling shows almost all outside this with <10% calling it downtown, while inside this polled >75%. Only exceptions are Trinity Bellwoods Park and The Annex.


This is Downtown West - from Bathurst to High Park.
Downtown East is from DVP to the Beaches - say Main Street.
Downtown North is Bloor to St. Clair.
Eglinton would be mid-town.

Those aren't downtown-anything.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Downtown to me means -annoying gridlock, tons of pedestrians, tons of stores, garbage, fire trucks, ambulances, police- essentially a chaotic area. Queen and Jameson is like that.

 

[King of Kensington]

More votes for High Park than Rosedale?

 

[King of Kensington]

Not surprised to see the status of the Annex "disputed." It isn't really downtown, but doesn't really quite fit with the north of Dupont neighborhoods either. It's a "center-city" neighborhood but kind of its own thing too.

Bathurst makes for a reasonably firm western boundary for "center-city Toronto." Spadina runs through neighborhoods - so it's weird to have the Annex and Kensington-Chinatown (which overlap) split 50/50. On the east side, the Don River is of course a hard boundary between the "downtown east" and east end, leaving Cabbagetown "central" by default.

*Yeah, I know I'm reopening a three year old thread.

 

[King of Kensington]

Looks like what we call "downtown" now was called the Central Area in the 1960s (p. 34). A map dividing the city into West, Central, North and East sectors.

PROPOSALS FOR A NEW PLAN FOR TORONTO : Toronto (Ont.). Planning Board : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

33 p. :

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