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Old Posted Nov 16, 2014, 10:03 PM
Beedok Beedok is offline
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I do think the two skylines would seem closer in size if Toronto (and the GTA's) highrises were set up like Chicago's. Chicago has a long, and fairly thin, band of highrises along the lake. Toronto's skyline is basically a thin band perpendicular to the lake (though this is changing) and then a half bajillion clumps scattered across the urban area.

Toronto is probably a few decades of from catching Chicago, but it was 5 million vs. 1 million in 1950, and is now* 8.8 million to 6.3 million, and with nothing in North America in between it makes sense that Chicago is their target.

*2012, the most recent place I could find both on the same list.