the suburban slab: looking back at toronto's first mass housing boom

Published Thursday, March 23, 2006 by geo | E-mail this post

“In Toronto, an unusually large number of high-rise apartments poke above the flat landscape many miles from downtown…this is a type of high density suburban development far more progressive and able to deal with the future than the endless sprawl of the US …” Buckminster Fuller, ‘68

One of the biggest differences between Toronto and most US cities is how the suburbs were developed. We have many satelite high density areas scattered throughout the city. This looks at them and compares how their ideals are doing now decades later.

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