Elizabeth Street, Toronto

Nicely framed, John ! Like your view very much !

Thanks, Ulrich.

Phenomenal cityscape!

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Thanks, William.

Such an eclectic mash up of architecture ! I don't know if this lack of planning is good or not. Nicely done shot John !

Thanks, Henry. In Toronto they just throw 'em up. It does mean that downtown the streetscapes are higgledy-piggledy. If you take streetcar across Toronto and through downtown you'll notice that the streets in the older neighbourhoods (pre-WWII) have a much more consistent look.

all the layers and colors of urban life ...

In Toronto the usual "colour" is grey, though, Sarah. This is atypical.

An excellent city-scape John...............it all looks a bit random though, as if it was planned by a three-year old..!! I love those faces peeking round the edge of the building about two-thirds of the way down on the right :-)

Thanks, Keith. You and Henry are right on the money. Downtown Toronto is minimally planned. The city is mainly concerned about density. Developers delinerately propose over-ambitious developments, the city demands reductions, the developers reduce, and away we go! The only architecturally homogeneous part of downtown is the Toronto-Dominion Centre, and that was the bank's idea rather than the city's.

I'm glad you noticed the faces. I like them, too.

Parts of London are like that now, quite apart from the atrocious City of London skyline with its show-off 'iconic' architectural eyesores. Sometimes it works at ground level if developers make the spaces in between attractive and easy to traverse.