Will Toronto rise to the skyscraper challenge?

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Will Toronto rise to the skyscraper challenge?

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / October 13

Developers like putting them up. Many young professionals and empty-nesters are prepared to line up around the block to get homes in them. And though citizens regularly take to the barricades to protest them, and Toronto city planners are inclined to lop off their too-high tops, tall residential buildings are steadfastly here to stay. But is there a common meeting ground for the various combatants in Hogtown's ongoing, fitful skyscraper wars? Is there a tower style that best suits our city, and our idea of the city we want? To get at these and other pressing questions about high rises, the planning department at City Hall is sponsoring a public discussion next Thursday.

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