Softee
Active Member
Lots of cities use downtown/midtown/uptown, such as Atlanta, St. Louis, even Detroit. No one accuses them of trying to copy NYC.
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Lots of cities use downtown/midtown/uptown, such as Atlanta, St. Louis, even Detroit. No one accuses them of trying to copy NYC.
North York is the suburbs.
Scarborough is part of Toronto too, yet nobody considers it downtown/midtown/uptown, right? It is just a suburb.
It really upsets me when people call Scarborough, etc, suburbs. No matter what area in Toronto we come from, we still live in Toronto, and what affects one of us, affects all of us.
(Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine.)
North York is the suburbs.
Scarborough is part of Toronto too, yet nobody considers it downtown/midtown/uptown, right? It is just a suburb.
It really upsets me when people call Scarborough, etc, suburbs. No matter what area in Toronto we come from, we still live in Toronto, and what affects one of us, affects all of us.
WHy? being a suburb or not depends on the built of an area, not whether it is politically part of a city or not.
For example, East York and Rosedale are suburbs too. They are simply closer to the core. One is blue collar and one is affluent, but still they are suburbs.
Yes and no - in the sense that to some the very act of living in those areas to get away from the bad bad city and "those people" - nevermind the irony of that given the changing fortunes of the inner burbs. It is also reflected in the politics of these areas - which I interpret as protest votes against inevitable changes residents are none to happy about.
I usually consider Uptown: North York Centre.. Midtown: Yonge and St. Clair/Eglinton and Downtown: the official boundaries...
However I do feel like we're trying to be something we're not when using some of these designations. Particularly Uptown, which historically belonged to Yonge and Bloor. I much rather use names to describe places, such as Yorkvillle = Yonge and Bloor, but with Yonge+StC/Eg it becomes confusing can we call it Forest Hill or is Midtown more appropriate?
I feel that the city should begin creating marketable identities for employment centres that currently lack definable ones. Especially "Midtown."
I usually consider Uptown: North York Centre.. Midtown: Yonge and St. Clair/Eglinton and Downtown: the official boundaries...
We could define it this way:
Uptown: North of Eglinton to just north of Lawrence (yeah, I know, not a big area) if we are using the old City of Toronto as a border - North of Lawrence is where Toronto ends and North York begins.
Midtown: Just south of Eglinton (where Minto Midtown is) to just North of Bloor
University District: South of Bloor to just south of College
Downtown: Just south of College to Front
Harbourfront: Anything below
The east-west borders: A little further west than Spadina, but the eastern border depends on the part of the city. For example, the University District's eastern border would only go as far east as a bit past Yonge, while the midtown-uptown borders stretch out to a bit past Bayview).
It doesn't have to be a rectangle or square.
Thoughts?
The university district is so wrong as UofT is only west of Bay St.
It doesn't have to be a square, but what's the east and west boundaries of your so called midtown and uptown?