Very nice documentary. It's too bad the City of Toronto doesn't mandate a certain standard that those heritage buildings need to be kept at. Some of them look so run down they wouldn't be out of place in SE Asia. Given the price of real estate there should be some requirement for restoration spend.
Yes, because if you require people spend $ it will suddenly materialize out of nowhere. And I'm sure people will continue to invest in hyper expensive real estate which comes with ever more government obligations to own it with no talk of having the city share in the expense for maintaining historic architecture. And good luck insuring windows that are thousands of $ to replace to keep to historical standards.
@@quantumhelium You mean an incredibly tiny hyper dense country with no room to expand? As opposed to Canada, the second largest nation on earth with a relatively low population. Yeah, nice false equivalency.
@@elliotmorin5560 Still don't understand what you're trying to say. Mandating commercial developers to maintain civic architecture is the cornerstone of many municipal policies across North America. Boston, Philly, Hell even Quebec City. You're equating Toronto to all of Canada. My initial point was referring to the "City of Toronto". You have suddenly started drawing up a conclusion that I was comparing Singapore (a city state) to Canada. That doesn't make sense. The density of Singapore is around 8000/km2 and Toronto is around 5500/km2 Not that huge of a difference, and Downtown Toronto would have an on par density with Singapore. So as far as cities go it is a VERY reasonable comparison.
Why go to all the trouble of laying tracks all over the city, only for horses to pull street cars around ? Makes no sense. Also, why would they construct buildings with windows at, or below, street level ? Why do all the old pictures have the skyline of the city blurred out? Did they import all the best masons, carvers and technology to build all those fancy old buildings. Hardly any population, but able to erect tons of stone and wood and massive carvin gs with horse and wagons for moving such heavy materials, on dirt and mud streets ! Things that make you go ..... hmmm.
Great documentary. However, the fact of the matter is that, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, both Montreal and Winnipeg were far more significant economically than Toronto. I suspect that it is from this circumstance that Torontonians developed an inferiority complex from which arose (in compensation) that insufferable arrogance and tasteless architectural over-compensation that has plagued us ever since.
This video deserves an award.
It’s very interesting, thanks! We need to know more about history of Toronto!
Thank you, history is very important.
great series
Love Tracks docs.
Thanks 🙏
highrises are a blight, inhuman, blocking the sun, and blocking sanity
You're right! We can't even see the CN tower anymore, right from downtown T.O. !
Very nice documentary. It's too bad the City of Toronto doesn't mandate a certain standard that those heritage buildings need to be kept at. Some of them look so run down they wouldn't be out of place in SE Asia. Given the price of real estate there should be some requirement for restoration spend.
Yes, because if you require people spend $ it will suddenly materialize out of nowhere. And I'm sure people will continue to invest in hyper expensive real estate which comes with ever more government obligations to own it with no talk of having the city share in the expense for maintaining historic architecture. And good luck insuring windows that are thousands of $ to replace to keep to historical standards.
@@elliotmorin5560 Ever been to Singapore?
@@quantumhelium You mean an incredibly tiny hyper dense country with no room to expand? As opposed to Canada, the second largest nation on earth with a relatively low population. Yeah, nice false equivalency.
@@elliotmorin5560 Still don't understand what you're trying to say. Mandating commercial developers to maintain civic architecture is the cornerstone of many municipal policies across North America. Boston, Philly, Hell even Quebec City. You're equating Toronto to all of Canada. My initial point was referring to the "City of Toronto". You have suddenly started drawing up a conclusion that I was comparing Singapore (a city state) to Canada. That doesn't make sense.
The density of Singapore is around 8000/km2 and Toronto is around 5500/km2
Not that huge of a difference, and Downtown Toronto would have an on par density with Singapore. So as far as cities go it is a VERY reasonable comparison.
Why go to all the trouble of laying tracks all over the city, only for horses to pull street cars around ? Makes no sense. Also, why would they construct buildings with windows at, or below, street level ?
Why do all the old pictures have the skyline of the city blurred out?
Did they import all the best masons, carvers and technology to build all those fancy old buildings. Hardly any population, but able to erect tons of stone and wood and massive carvin
gs with horse and wagons for moving such heavy materials, on dirt and mud streets !
Things that make you go ..... hmmm.
It could have been worse. They could have built canels and had horses pull rafts. Joking aside, I don't know why we still have tracks on our roads.
The great hall took 1 year to build in 1889. Impossible totally impossible of all these structures were built by us ..
All that music was inappropriate
Where is the tailor guy at????
Dumb question?
@@FaceyourGiants1
Do you even know what I'm talkin about?
seems like mulroney and regan ruined canada back around 1985.
From Gothic to hideous.
Great documentary. However, the fact of the matter is that, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, both Montreal and Winnipeg were far more significant economically than Toronto. I suspect that it is from this circumstance that Torontonians developed an inferiority complex from which arose (in compensation) that insufferable arrogance and tasteless architectural over-compensation that has plagued us ever since.
The most annoying voice I have ever heard
Thank you!!! I thought only I felt that. She's a wonderful lady, I like her, but the voice tonality (and the accent) though! omg!