![]() To compare, if we transplanted the footprint of Toronto over Detroit, it would include: A bit more than 1/2 the size of the City of Toronto geographically. (The first three all folded into Etobicoke)Īdditionally, we saw resource-sharing across much of southern Ontario, but for purposes of this discussion, the GTA, with the other Regional Municipalitiesĭetroit (City proper) is only 370km2. Most if not all of those were done by 1967. Where I don't think there's any evidence of that having happened in Buffalo or Detroit.īut also, the municipalities within Metro when from 13 at its inception, to only 6 by the time the 'mega-city' happened. ![]() examples of great decline.īut that's true, at least in part, because of a series of amalgamations (going back well before the mega-city) in Toronto's case. Though the direct comparison to Chicagoland, in terms of area is the Greater Goldenhorsehoe.Īny which way you look at it, the core of Toronto is much larger relative to its suburbs vs the 2 U.S. Where Chicago is a much larger 'core city'. Of note, Buffalo and Detroit are both cities with a relatively small core municipality and a more suburban region around. I am curious if you're familiar w/any literally divided cities.vs the flight to suburbia model. white (suburban) cities which were extracted out of the black (urban) areas and any financial obligations to support shared services, the legacy of which is still in impacting things today.īut want to add.I'm not sure how many cities were literally carved up, as much as new ones created at periphery (former farmland).which became white, well-off, suburbs. Many cities were depopulated not by people moving per se, but because they were carved up politically into new. When talking about the depopulation of some US cities there was also a racial component to throw in there that can't be hand-waived off. Here in Canada that has rarely happened, though there are a handful of examples. ManyUS rust belt cities that had big problems when large employers shut down saw people kicked on to a meagre severance plan, little to no unemployment insurance payments, and those of retirement age saw their promised pension payments vapourise because it turned out the employer never actually funded the pension plan in the first place. One thing which comes up with the idea of a Canadian rust-belt is that many of the business' here had a slower wind up, and they also had stronger union and retirement plan protections. Various other sites also found new uses fairly quickly.īy contrast Detroit suffered terribly, and its former Packard Factory stood rotting for more than 3 generations. That gap is only a bit over a decade before the area reemerged. So I'm assuming construction was underway by 2004'ish? (not sure on that one) The first major condo complex by Monarch, "Battery Park" opened in 2006. Liberty Village didn't really start to fully de-industrialize until 1991 (closure of Carpet Factory and Inglis) The Massey Harris Site was dead for a short while before Liberty Village came about.but not all that long. Go back as far the 50's and the Ford (later Nash Motors) plant closed, it moved into being a Shopping Centre almost immediately. While GM had a van plant in the Golden Mile) it also featured some steel making, extensive oil tank farms and Inglis (who made appliances), amongst many others.īut where Buffalo, Rochester, Cleveland, Detroit and others saw massive declines in employment and large swathes of abandoned land Toronto really never experienced this at any material scale or for any length of time. While Toronto was certainly a heavy-industry city at one point, with Massey-Ferguson, but also both Ford and GM had factories here (Ford was Shopper's World at Victoria Park and Danforth before it decamped to Oakville, I think the term 'rust belt' as it is most commonly used, tends to refer to:ġ) Cities that were heavily into manufacturing/heavy industryĢ) Where those same Cities went through a process of de-industrializationģ) And where the above did so in a manner consistent with economic decline/stagnation, often with a fall-off in population, and many areas of brownfields or decayed ruins.
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