Toronto's Identity

[adma]

Oh, and Cancerous, let me revisit your post in a previous thread just before it closed, where you speak up on behalf of Montreal...

First of all, Montreal has a height limit of 200m on all its buildings, which is the elevation of Mount Royale, so that limits what architects can do with tall structures.
Secondly, we don’t know what kind of buildings would have been built had Montreal remained to be the economic centre of Canada prior to the Quiet Revolution in the 1960’s.

In spite of that, the city has some truly impressive buildings and sites to witness; I mean they created a man-made island in the middle of the St. Lawrence River for God’s sakes!
The Olympic Stadium looks far more impressive than the Rogers Centre in my opinion, especially when you consider that it’s the tallest slanted structure and stadium in the world.
Have you seen anything in the world that looks like the Biosphere?
What about Habitat 67?
Even churches, is there any church in Toronto that has the same grandeur as St. Joseph’s Oratory? It’s the biggest church in Canada and has the second biggest dome in the world after St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. Notre Dame Basilica looks just as fabulous if not better.
Who has more geographical coverage with more impressive stations, the Montreal Metro or the Toronto Subway?
What about the Westmount City Hall? The Museum of Fine Arts? The Casino?

Oooh. Aaah. Oooh. Aaah. You're talking gee-whiz tourist-pamphlet bumph and superlatives there. As a Montrealer (which I'm not), I'd be embarrassed.

And above all, when you're posting in a realm like Urban Toronto, to not include Phyllis Lambert's Canadian Centre for Architecture in your list, while including potboilers like the Casino, well...that says a lot.

Remember this person.

 

[syn]

Cancerous is just continuing his trolling from the previously closed thread. It should be pretty obvious.

 

[Hydrogen]

Actually no, you’ve just embarrassed yourself.
Every city in the world occupies a specific and unique location on the planet; it’s a simple case of intersecting longitudes and latitudes, captain obvious.
Your answer is probably the most simpleton, unscholarly, and unsophisticated I’ve ever come across and if there was an “IGNORE†button on this forum, I wouldn’t hesitate for a second to put it to good use and block your comments.

Do me a favour and completely ignore my future posts henceforth, pretend I’m not even here.
I’m through wasting my time and brain cells with you.

One last note, posting messages @ 4AM is never a good sign!

Good that you noted what I stated as being a fact, because it is a fact. You otherwise failed to refute it. But you being you, it managed to ignite your poorly suppressed temper - which it exactly why you post here - to troll and to vent your hatred concerning Toronto.

As for the conclusion to your pouty ad hominem, you might want see a physician concerning the ongoing loss of brain cells during your tantrums.

If you don't like my comments, don't read them. I certainly will keep responding when I see fit.

Anyway, we both know you'll keep reading them.

 

[freshcutgrass]

You’re talking as if I’m somehow afraid to tell you that Toronto doesn’t have an identity

I was referring back to your original question being rhetorical. We already know what you think. You're wrong-headed in both your opinion, and I presume, your motivation for going such a long way to present it.

I’m providing a reason and a proof to back up my assertion as to why I’m invalidating.

Well...your idea of proof I guess. It doesn't really matter, because it has nothing to do with the point I was making...you are defining Toronto based on what it isn't, rather than what it is, and that is the wrong methodology. Perhaps you simply don't grasp the point?

You have an unhealthy self-aggrandising streak, and I think your narcissism is not the way to deal with your issues.

Now I think you are just grasping at random words you think impress people. It doesn't make any sense...how is anything I'm saying remotely equate to "self-aggrandizing" or "narcissism" ? If you are going to throw something back in my face, rather than addressing it directly, at least have it make some sense.

Apparently not, because if you have ever studied or enrolled in any Urban Studies/Urban Planning school, you would quickly discover that the most essential part of your studies would be the field trips to other cities, and the more of these, the better!

This is how we learn to avoid others’ mistakes and implement their successes. However, according to you, we should ignore everything done outside “the centre of the universeâ€!!!

But nobody is saying anything to the contrary...it just doesn't have anything to do with determining what Toronto is.

Of course in the process of city-building, Toronto has looked carefully at what other places are doing/not doing. It has also looked to the people of Toronto...and listened quite a lot...Toronto is a city famous for bucking the old saying "you can't fight city hall". And has been rather successful at the whole process. The city didn't largely avoid the pitfalls that befell pretty much every city in the USA by pure luck.

Fittingly, you use the term "centre of the universe" as if it was self-proclaimed, when in fact, is a termed coined by your fellow Canadian Toronto-bashers.

You are the very thing that ails this city.

And why is that? Because of your completely false notion that I'm not interested in anything more than the mediocre...that I'm under the impression that Toronto is a "utopia"...that I'm not interested or diluted in the idea that there is nothing to improve?

Couldn't be farther than the truth. It's just that nothing you have pointed out, is legit. Bring up an actual legit issue, then you'll hear me squeal like a pig at some of the things that bug me about this city. In the meantime, this thread has nothing to do with Toronto, and everything to do with you and your issues...whatever they are. And quite frankly, people with your kind of wrong-headedness, is what ails this city.

 

[JasonParis]

There's no need for this to go on. CLOSED.