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To: BBQToadRibs2

My bad- per rush.com, “Subdivisions” came out in 1982.

The video was shot entirely in Toronto and its immediate suburbs. The opening aerial view is of the Financial District and is part of a complex that housed the HQ of a major Bank; the tallest building is less than 800’ and was completed in the early 1970s. It was Canada’s tallest skyscraper until another major bank opened a skyscraper diagonally across from it on the same intersection. All of the five largest Canadian banks have skyscrapers within a few blocks that connect underground with each other and back then at least three subway stations as well.

As a UK visitor once told my mom back in the late 1960s, “Toronto will be a wonderful city- if they ever get it finished!”


7 posted on 12/08/2023 4:53:28 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (I don't run; if you see me running, you should run too.)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

What drove me nuts about architecture that was all the rage here throughout the 1980s: Houses with a garage where the verandah or front lawn should be! I grew up in a subdivision that was built in the mid-1950s and the houses were designed to be customized and/or expanded from the design stage. A couple of hundred houses from no more than half a dozen blueprints. The same is no doubt true of American suburbs; the older they are, the more livable they get.


8 posted on 12/08/2023 4:58:29 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (I don't run; if you see me running, you should run too.)
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