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Outer Toronto Detached 32% 5+ storey apartment 41% 905 Detached 57% 5+ storey apartment 13%

On the whole there are significant socioeconomic, cultural and built form differences between Outer Toronto/inner suburbs and the 905. The main differences seem to be Outer 416 was built up by 1970 for the most part, 905 is mostly post-1980 suburbia with an almost "sunbelt" typology A lot...

Detroit ca. 1940 probably had the most prosperous working class in the world at the time. Cars were accessible to the masses earlier - hence the auto-oriented development. When working class people in most eastern cities were still living in apartments and rowhouses, their equivalents in...

Detroit has a similar land area to the City of Toronto without Etobicoke and Scarborough.

Or you referring to the 1954 creation of Metro as an amalgamation of sorts, which in a way it was. I would argue that the creation of Metro was our "1898 moment" (the year modern-day NYC was created) not the 1998 amalgamation.

I assume you're referring to the early 20th century amalgamations in Toronto? Detroit did expand its land area quite extensively during this period as well. It was a "late bloomer" among the industrial giants, tripling in size between 1910 and 1930 and (not surprisingly) more auto-oriented...

Absolutely. The border is real. And the Great Migration was central to the experience of the US Rust Belt. Also - Canadians can't just move to Arizona or Florida.

Is Chicago rust belt? It was always the "big city" of the Midwest and benefitted from that stature - continued to receive decent numbers of immigrants, had a pretty diverse economy etc. Of course downtown/North Side and the South and West Sides are worlds apart.

In it, not of it?

"Rust belt" is seen by some as a pejorative - so pretty much every city that's not as rusty as Youngstown, Ohio and has had a post-industrial transition will say it's "not rust belt." So the historic Manufacturing Belt is perhaps a better term. Is Toronto part of this region? It's hard to...

She is Chilean but speaks Portuguese and French as well as her native Spanish.

Agreed. East York and York are both interwar and postwar. East York is probably about 50/50 prewar/postwar development. York is mostly prewar, but some parts on the edge continued to fill in in the 1950s.

The transition is so subtle and people have forgotten I guess.

Alejandra Bravo is running for the NDP nomination in Davenport. She ran three times for city council in the northern part (former ward 17).

Looks like what we call "downtown" now was called the Central Area in the 1960s (p. 34). A map dividing the city into West, Central, North and East sectors. https://archive.org/details/proposalsfornewp00toro_0/page/n33/mode/2up

Not surprised to see the status of the Annex "disputed." It isn't really downtown, but doesn't really quite fit with the north of Dupont neighborhoods either. It's a "center-city" neighborhood but kind of its own thing too. Bathurst makes for a reasonably firm western boundary for...

Even with Mel Lastman's civic boosterism, North York doesn't really have that strong a civic identity. Whether you're in York Mills or Bathurst Manor or Jane and Finch - I don't think you'll find much "North York pride" or anything like that.

Lots of Peter Tabuns/John Tory voters in Danforth.

Looking at poll by polls, the NDP in the last federal election did best in the early-gentrification, less wealthy areas like Dufferin Grove and Kensington Market; in more mature, established areas like the Annex and North Riverdale the NDP was weaker. Incidentally Keesmaat did not have this...

Does "gentrification" actually hurt the NDP and NDP-ish left in Toronto? Debatable.