Elizabeth Street, Toronto

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.

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

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.