Posted on 19/12/02
Save this city
Just as San Francisco is the city by the bay, and Rome the city on seven hills, so Canada's largest city has a wonderful physical identity. From Scarborough to Etobicoke, Toronto is defined by its waterfront, and the rivers and creeks that empty into it. Right now, the city has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that waterfront magnificent -- and to reclaim the energy, the sense of shared enterprise that made Toronto a vital centre of community consciousness in the 1970s and early 1980s. But Toronto has lost its way. And it's in danger of losing its chance to reclaim its soul by allowing the same old political deal-making that has scarred the streetscape to destroy the likelihood of a revitalized waterfront.
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