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marzipanandminutiae · 1 month ago

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wait so

Toronto dates back to 1834

and you all just tore down all the old buildings and replaced them with skyscrapers??? your requisite "great fire" was in 1904 so that doesn't excuse it because it's still within the Pretty Architecture Era?

as a Bostonian, I have to offer serious condolences and thank the Preservation Gods that we only did two big Mass Teardown Projects(TM) in the mid-20th century

#architecture #canada #I wondered about this when I visited years ago #Casa Loma and the Spadina house didn't make sense if it was a new city #but there were like. NO old buildings besides that. it was so sterile and off-putting #The Handmaid's Tale is so weird because of that. like. no that is clearly NOT Boston #it would need like 900% more 19th-century commercial buildings around to resemble Boston

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