The Globe and Mail

For the first time in decades, Toronto actually stands a good chance of getting the beautiful, neighbourly residential waterfront it deserves. Now that's a switch. Until the quite recent past, it looked as if we would be getting worse than nothing at all. There was the bold residential development at Harbourfront, for example, which is now regretted by almost everyone who cares about Toronto's Lake Ontario shoreline. Then, a few years later, there was Ataratiri, the huge, idealistic housing complex that never got built on public land near the inner harbour. But Ataratiri was only one among numerous plans to regenerate the former industrial lands by the water's edge, all now gathering dust in the archive of unrealized dreams.