christiesplits
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"Rouge Park is the largest natural area in a North American city."
Nobody has been able to come up with the 30km number independently. It's also not a standard unit of measuring retail.
There's no way the PATH retail is 30 km. in total length. The main north-south spine is only about 2 km. long and most of it from Union southwards has no real retail at all.
Nobody has been able to come up with the 30km number independently. It's also not a standard unit of measuring retail.
There's no way the PATH retail is 30 km. in total length. The main north-south spine is only about 2 km. long and most of it from Union southwards has no real retail at all.
The attached file is completely irrelevant, unless seat projections for the 2015 federal elections have to do with square footage in underground shopping centres.Ok then....but are there many (any?) other 4 million s.f. retail centres all underground?
The film crew that dressed Toronto to look like New York and a cleaning crew came in and picked up all the garbage while everyone was on lunch break
thanks....no idea how that got there....have deleted it.The attached file is completely irrelevant, unless seat projections for the 2015 federal elections have to do with square footage in underground shopping centres.
"Rouge Park is the largest natural area in a North American city."
Great idea for a thread!
One thing commonly said of Toronto and specifically Cabbagetown is that it contains the largest intact Victorian neighbourhood in North America. I have never been able to find any actual factual support for this claim, which would appear on the face of it to be untrue when one considers the vast swathes of 19th Century buildings that remain in New York (Brooklyn specifically), Boston, Philadelphia and Montreal. Similar claims are made in Australia for Melbourne - which seem even more unlikely.
Largest nature park within a metropolitan area, maybe, since it extends beyond Toronto proper? It's 50 km2. What other parks within cities are that big?
I don't think it is the largest. A quick check of Wikipedia, the fount of all knowledge, shows that (sticking to North America) the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale is 112 sq. km. Franklin Mountains State Park in El Paso is 98 sq. km., and South Mountain Park in Phoenix is 65 sq. m. In Canada, the North Saskatchewan river valley parks system in Edmonton is almost 73 sq. m.
Having said that, Wikipedia also says that "Rouge is the largest nature park within a core of a metropolitan area in North America". (no source provided in that article)
Not sure how to reconcile those two articles. Not sure what it is about Rouge Park which (allegedly) distinguishes it from those others I mentioned such that it meets that claim.
If it ever is designated a National Park, it might be the largest national park within an urban area.