Hipster Duck
Senior Member
Toronto is more my kind of city and has a lot more edge than Vancouver, which can sometimes seem like the IKEA catalogue of world cities. Still, it's unfair to dismiss Vancouver's accomplishments which, by the numbers, are much more impressive than Toronto's. For example, Vancouver built 60km of real rapid transit in the time that it took us to build 6.
Their design review panel may be a bit dogmatic, but it has largely prevented crimes against urbanity like one-story LCBOs from gracing high Victorian commercial strips or 50-storey condo towers from planting their feet in "designated" historic neighbourhoods. Walking along a newly developed commercial street in Vancouver is often bland, but hardly ever offensive.
Their Metro Vancouver authority (nee GVRD) has over 40 years of experience collectively administering a wide range of services across the region, while GTA mayors bicker and fight over self-interests like the factions that split Beirut.
Their transportation projects are products of professional planning and regional coordination, while our transportation "master plan" is basically the wet dream of an aging streetcar evangelist and his pied piper ensemble of Gladstone hipsters.
If I lived in Vancouver I'd be more bored but I'd probably be less cynical.
Their design review panel may be a bit dogmatic, but it has largely prevented crimes against urbanity like one-story LCBOs from gracing high Victorian commercial strips or 50-storey condo towers from planting their feet in "designated" historic neighbourhoods. Walking along a newly developed commercial street in Vancouver is often bland, but hardly ever offensive.
Their Metro Vancouver authority (nee GVRD) has over 40 years of experience collectively administering a wide range of services across the region, while GTA mayors bicker and fight over self-interests like the factions that split Beirut.
Their transportation projects are products of professional planning and regional coordination, while our transportation "master plan" is basically the wet dream of an aging streetcar evangelist and his pied piper ensemble of Gladstone hipsters.
If I lived in Vancouver I'd be more bored but I'd probably be less cynical.