This recent drone image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor Tim MacDonald captures a scene that shares a lot with suburbs across the continent — wide roads, surface parking, subdivisions to the horizon — but one that's relatively unique to Toronto's suburbs too, through the interrupting line of high-rises. In most metropolitan areas in North America, high-rises are a thing of the central city... but with developable land both in such high demand and relatively scarce here, Toronto and its surrounding municipalities are leading the way in high-density where it's not so usually found, and skylines other than Downtown Toronto's proliferate across the region. In this case, we look south across Eglinton Avenue in the Erin Mills area of Mississauga, with the parking lots of the Erin Mills Town Centre mall taking up the foreground.

High-rises run along Eglinton Avenue in the Erin Mills area of Mississauga, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor Tim MacDonald

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