I hope not. York is a suburban campus with a suburban feel. If you want an urban campus, go to Ryerson or U of T.
York is an aesthetic monstrosity.
Its also profoundly unwelcoming/unsafe for pedestrians.
When checking out the subway extension, I got off at Pioneer Village Station, with the simple goal of walking to York U station via the campus.
The first thing I discovered is that there isn't even the most basic sidewalk continuous between those two points.
In fact, right across from Pioneer Village Station there is no sidewalk.......
When one does wander further in, to where there are dedicated walkways, one finds a soupy maze without good wayfinding, unappealing and poorly maintained streetscapes/landscapes.......and buildings that almost all turn their back on the walkway.
When wanders further along, one finds York Lanes, a bland, small, shopping mall in the midst of no man's land that again turns its back on the surrounding area.
When you get out to the York U subway stop......you find very little in the way street-facing retail, classrooms or patios...........moribund landscapes, and desire lines across the large sod median that are unpaved, and as such a mud/ice heap during the winter and not lit!
If that's what passes for acceptable in suburbia........then everything must go.
Steeles and Keele are not going to be 'urbane' and humanly-scaled anytime soon, that is not a one, two or three building project.
Notwithstanding that...........there is a need to do better than parking, vacant lots and a huge berm.
Over time, this campus can be rescued, if there's sufficient ambition. But I will say, I see very little of that today.
Sadly.