gristle
Senior Member
If Toronto is going to have two Central Business Districts, at least one of them won't be central.
It's also worth pointing out that most people's "world standards" try and ignore asian cities on purpose. They provide a terrible standard of living for the most part, with a few notable exceptions. No one aspires to become like them, just like you wouldn't aspire to replicate the built form of Caracas (Venezuela), in spite of its apparent density.
The quality of a city isn't just down to density and population.
EDIT #2: Reading the original post, the poster was wrong about Asia, so sorry for not giving you some credit.
If Toronto is going to have two Central Business Districts, at least one of them won't be central.
Wouldn't a second CBD just cause more problems?
Sure, it would get some people commuting somewhere besides downtown, but how is that going to stop the mass of people who already commute downtown? Its not like we can just erase the offices and stores in our current downtown. The amount of people commuting downtown will not change at all by adding a second CBD. A second CBD means you will have the same problem, just in a different location. The Union station area will still require a huge investment in Transit, and now you would have a second area that would need a large investment in order to keep traffic manageable.
Unfortunately we were only talking about city size, not living standards, or human rights, or where to move to. Only which are bigger, or whether "Toronto's size in beyond imaginable by world standards".
You might want to discuss quality of life in a different thread.
I think that more office space in the future will exist at small scales outside of nodal clusters
Will Toronto have a second CBD?
The Municipality of Rio is twice the size of Toronto.
It's more profitable for developers to build condos rather than office buildings, as far I know; couple it with NYCC and MCC having higher land costs (do they?) .If you are talking about North York Centre and Mississauga Centre, unfortunately they don't build office buildings there anymore.
Toronto needs to reduce taxes for new office building construction (like they do for high rise residential, there is a higher rate for older buildings and a lower rate for newer buildings).