This City is the Next New York
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ค. 2022
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@@warrenmacdonald3463 not true at all. The prices are increasing because there is more and more demand to live there and supply can barely keep up. It has the highest demand of all of Canada which wouldn't be the case if it was getting less livable
How does it lack culture and beauty? It has gorgeous skyline lots of cultures one of the most multicultural cities tons of beautiful food people attractions and business opportunities.
Canada would merge with America sooner than you think and it started with alaska and then go with Alberta then the whole Canada but first greenland ,which they have confirmed their independency in next 5 to 10 years and their new elected governor stated America would be the only country we sell our land to since our young ones have inclination toward America and everything we have is because of America....
I have been asking for a shoutout to this city for years. Very glad to finally see it happen. IMHO, architecturally speaking, there are many more projects that are worth mentioning here, that maybe might necessitate a part 2! Mirvish+Gehry, Sky Tower by Pinnacle, Sugar Wharf, East Harbour, Villiers Island, YSL Residences and so many more will change the face of this city forever. We are already more populous than Chicago, and are about to make the skyline reflect that.
@@cybergirl3139 This is just a stupid take. Like, utterly and profoundly stupid.
Getting kinda tired of these clickbait titles. Your product is quality enough and you'd think your audience would be quality enough that you could trust them to click without being so Buzzfeed about it. Kinda makes me feel like I'm in bad company when vids are titled like this, like you think your audience is stupid, low-attention span, lowest-common-denominator types
The biggest issue in the us and Canada are in my opinion the missing of middle housing, which is restricted by zoning. If the zoning wouldn't be that strict, the market would adjust better to the need and thus more affordable housing.
Yeah, its pretty obvious but it´s either a) heritage feelings or b) the car lobby that makes Canadians stick to that zoning. A walkable neighbourhoods has so much pros but if a person never experienced that its hard to vote for this.
Its not enough. In Europe we have middle housing everywhere and the prices are skyrocketing. I see only 2 solutions: regulation on how many houses/apartments can a person/company buy or massive social housing development funded by the gov. Or maybe a combination. And by massive i mean massive. After single payer healthcare maybe its time for single payer housing. Or atleast voluntary public housing "insurence" for those who want it.
Exactly the issue in Toronto
@@jurajkolnik7335 In US and Canada, most cities and states/provinces have absurd amounts of land to work with. It's just that we wasted it all on 1/4 acre (1000 m²) lots for single houses with big garden plots and huge roads for heavy car traffic. European countries may still have housing space issues even with more intelligent urban planning because most Euro countries are very small. I think urban planning would solve many if not most of the housing issues in the US and Canada. But first you have to talk all the people into it who were brainwashed into thinking having a house in the suburbs and commuting by car 45 mins each way to work is the dream
@@jurajkolnik7335 Its true. May sound stupid but maybe some places should start to think about "investment-free" neighbourhoods. Where the state/the city and the communitites really start to create, develop and maintain their neighbourhoods for themselves and visitors. As long as space is something to gamble with, people with have a problem to find affordable housing.
Driving through Toronto on the 401 during rush hour is one of the worst transportation nightmares I have ever experienced. There's sections that are 18(!) lanes wide. Truly a chaotic and bizarre experience
Try the LA Expressway. Or pick any city on I 95.
I'm not from Canada and have never been to Toronto, but the fact that I studied the 401 in college as an example of why making highways that big actually backfires, tells me something. In my mind it's in an exclusive category of massive highways that just plain suck. In the same league as the 405 in LA, and the Katy Freeway (I-10) in Houston.
@@larryn1929 I've driven on the LA expressways before. Hwy 401 was worse for me, especially during the winter.
@@airwick4u mainly because the 401 isn't just a local highway, its ontario's most integral corridor, connecting detroit to montreal. basically any vehicle traveling from the US to ontario and vice versa is going to wind up on the 401. thats why theres just as many trucks as there are cars.
@@Skyfoogle To add onto that, it's also basically the only free east to west highway servicing a population of at least 7 million. Not saying we need more highways but everyone is funneling into that one highway.
I’ve been regularly traveling to Toronto since 2007 for work. There is always so much construction going on. The city feels quite a bit different now than it did 15 years ago.
I immigrated to Canada in 2006, Toronto specifically and I can tell that there is a huge difference between 2006 Toronto and 2022 Toronto
Toronto sucks
You Yank or Canuck?
@@frenkli9815biggest difference besides maybe the price?
I just visited Toronto metro area and totally blown away, I felt it the new skylines more like Dubai than New York. I drove Mississauga - Toronto - scarborough and totally impressed by the ever changing multiples skylines (most of the residential towers) and public transport system (also glad to see that many people walking).
Glad you enjoyed you visit. I am by victoria park and danforth.
Unfortunately public transit is abhorrent as soon as you leave the Toronto area. I wish Ontario made a better effort in developing our public transit system.
@@greentea_vsrgit is happening! there are a lot of go projects going on. as well as a lot of inter municipality transit options!
@@greentea_vsrgalso one fare system throughout gta will be implemented soon
@@alanwatchesstuffit shouldn't. Mississauga is not Toronto.
I lived in London, ON for 7 years and we got the effects of "Manhattanization of Toronto". Lots of ppl sold and moved to London with their big money. In 2014 the avg home was $240K, now it's over $800K. Wages are stuck in the 1990s level. Locals can't afford homes which is why I left. There was no "getting ahead".
Calgary is about to become the same, house prices are rising
@@jk-gb4et Alberta is about to be fxxked by the people that hated it, how ironic.
@@shaun2435 ya I remember him at the airports greeting future voters and for some the citizenship rules were changed.
@@jk-gb4et Just like everywhere in the world, no modern country is the prices going down
@@tomken91
rising fast
Good for B1M for digging deep for why Toronto is building massive building in certain spaces and not in the yellow belt. Focusing the video on not just the One.
just east of the Dundas west, downtown just very small(old Toronto)
its dumpiness couples well snugly with the rest of world's ridicule of this joke of a colony...!
@@trainrover Toronto is a joke
@@jackmiller9829 they mis-spell Rotton-Ø for the d u m b e s t reasons...welcome! to where rot's wrought from nought...!
@@jackmiller9829 you're a joke
As someone who deals with skyscraper wind every day in Toronto I really appreciate them adding wind considerations for the common people walking around the urban palaces which are probably planned for this building.
why dont you move then?
Is that why Chicago is known as the windy city because they neglected those considerations ?
Dear North Americans in the replies,
You're late to the party. Relax; wind considerations are in most cities mandated by law and are essentially part of pedestrian design 101.
@@goldenboyi1989 "why dont you just up and leave a city its so easy 🥺"
@@h.f6364 it is as simple as walking away
We went during Christmas. My dad, who grew up in the city, now live in America, was shocked to see how much development is happening in the city. Thankfully mass public transit is also being developed as a way to properly commute ppl around the city. Toronto has a lot going for it, and has succeeded in many areas where US cities have failed
It has the luxury of learning from the mistakes of others. Obviously new cities have advantages over old cities when it comes to planning for various variables (growth, design, efficiency, traffic, sewage, housing, transit, disasters, etc)
It just needs to get rid of its car dependency. Toronto could be the best city in the world. It honestly actually could be. We NEEEED to tackle this housing issue.
Wear a coat.
@@RandomRabbit007 That's not the case for US. It's just poor design
@@doggo2995 Shut up
Toronto definitely needs missing middle, mid-rise, and anything else that is relatively dense while not being insanely expensive to build all throughout the city and region. This way policies to control some costs or have affordable subsidized housing or the city/province building social housing themselves can be feasible. Also, many single family homes could even be converted into multifamily units without much change if regulations allowed it. The US and Canada are not going to solve the housing crisis with supertalls but with a loosening of restrictions on what can be built where, while also having intervention by government to control pricing/provide housing for those most in need.
this is why doug ford winning another term is tragic for ontario. complete disregard for the housing crisis. the feds can spend all they want trying to fix it but without zoning changes the problem will persist
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It’s finally here
Seems like zoning is a problem across all of North America. Is it home owners who advocate for these laws to keep up the prices of their homes? I don't know just kind of guessing.
@@ghostf6321 Zoning is NOT a problem! If anything, it is too easily cast aside to destroy desirable areas.
The way to solve the housing crisis is to restrict births.
I went to live in Toronto in 1970 and there was one, yes ONE, skyscraper and it was the Toronto Dominion Center which is made up of three buildings but one topping at 54 floors where there is a restaurant. It is now dwarfed by the surrounding buildings. I left Toronto in 1980 and at the time I lived in a prestigious condo by the Granite Club at Yonge and St. Clair. By then several skyscrapers had been built including the CN Tower. However, in 40 years the city has been completely transformed.
I now live not that far from st .. Yonge and Eglinton and it has changed so much in 5 years. You see nothing but skyscrapers
Since then Toronto has been painfully slow in adding new taller buildings just too many short skinny ones.
Yonge and st clair is my neighbourhood and its completely different now. There are even more changes coming now with multiple beautifully designed high-rises (one deslile) and ‘saint clair place’.
@@mdte5421 Awesome
Bitch, please, this is nothing compared to 10 years of chinese urban development at any of their cities... Toronto has been slightly changed 😂
I enjoy living in Toronto. Made a nice life here with loads of work, a nice but ancient house and a great neighbourhood filled with a diverse group of mostly friendly, and interesting people Everything I want or need within a 5 min walk, transit options galore and even close to highways. Growing up in Rural Canada I had a hate on for Toronto just like everybody else but after 16 years here, I've really grown fond of the place. Its got plenty of issues but is a pretty fantastic place to live in my experience.
this hit home for me. literally studied this exact building and the housing crisis in my college trade program. went to George Brown in Toronto…
+1 for mentioning zoning. If all the single-family housing zoning were switched to medium-density/medium-rise housing we could more sustainably solve this issue.
Definitely would help with the supply crunch and could also prevent the demand for further suburban sprawl happening around the GTA
@@emeraldbonsai You can simply expropriate them
@@emeraldbonsai never said it would be immediate, just more sustainable over the long run. Besides, towers take a while to build too.
@@emeraldbonsai There's lots of single family home neighbourhoods in prime locations that are aging and ripe for redevelopment. However, because of government inaction on zoning, those opportunities that exist RIGHT NOW are being missed. Look at Willowdale around Yonge Street in North York. We already have a lively mixed use strip along Yonge Street, and the old bungalows around them are slowly being sold off. Those could have been bought out by developers for intensification. But instead, they are being sold to rich families to build mansions, sealing that area off to redevelopment for generations to come.
If you listen to the podcast 99 Percent Invisible, literally the last episode delved into this. Also went into the historical context of why sprawl is the way it is and why there is a missing middle. Spoiler alert: racism! (Can't say much better things about the City I live in, as well [Mississauga] :S )
Minor note to add is that The One has applied for a height increase to 338M. There are renderings for this increase and the tower looks much more balanced with the top section full sized.
old Toronto area?
It's located at Yonge and Bloor. 1 Bloor Street West.
Recent rumor is it's not likely to be approved due to shadowing issues.
It's also been growing at a snail's pace, so it probably won't even make it if the recession hits soon.
Shania Twain should write a song about 'The One'.
I’m such a fan of the three story condo buildings you see in old parts of New England, they’re so much better for yellow belt development than just a single family house; even just changing 15% from 1 family to 3-4 would be massive and it wouldn’t change the cityscape that much. Toronto has an insanely good rapid bus transit and most of those communities are being better connected to bus routes anyways & GOTransit is making regional rail so much better in the whole Golden Horseshoe
Nah single family is better for the people living in there, looks way nicer too.
@@iirosiren5120 it’s not better because it costs significantly more money to maintain a single family home and most canadiens cannot actually afford it
@@TheMusiclover500 here's a surprise. It's not your job to tell others how they wish to live. End of story. If people want to live in single family then that's none of your business just because you want to live on top of each other
@@xr6lad Zoning restrictions make it illegal to build anything but single family housing in 62.3% of Toronto. If it was legal to build three story condos, they would almost certainly be popular. Indeed, the areas of Toronto which has detached houses because they predate the zoning regulations are extremely popular. Thus, proponents of singe family housing are the ones that should not tell people what they want.
@@iirosiren5120 Is it? Generally they require cars to get anywhere, which can make you feel trapped. If you have a car it’s fine, but even then kids growing up there can’t always just walk to the store or a friends house because of the wide and not pedestrian-friendly roads.
Concord Sky Condo and Pinnacle Sky Tower going up in Toronto will also be hitting that 300m mark. I'm very lucky to have spent some time working at the engineering firm responsible for the structural design of those towers. There are lots of interesting projects underway in the city, not just towers, I'm sure we'd all love to see more videos from The B1M that are focused on Toronto!
It’s definitely booming at a crazy rate, unfortunately the city is becoming painfully unaffordable and the architecture of all these towers is very bland.
The one is a perfect example of everything wrong with this boom. Fuckers tore down historic buildings night before the committee meeting, the builder has a history of being shady af and so on.
@@liajet24 ugh so gross
Manhattanization indeed, they even Manhattanizing the Manhattan housing price. Lmao.
Yes....another unaffordable bullseye. 🛎
@@SickOfDemocracy yea what we should be aspiring to do from Manhattan is building a great transit network, building the walk up apartments etc. Instead we are taking everything that's bad about it and shoving it into this city.
This was so cool to see my city featured in a B1M video. I'd never even heard of this project until now. My dad said that from his office window he could always see at least a dozen cranes in the city. I always loved the feeling of driving into the city on the highway, like as you drive in the buildings become taller all of a sudden.
I lived in Buffalo, NY for 17 years, and always enjoyed my regular visits to Toronto. But I’ve lived in Phoenix now since 2004, and my last visit to Toronto was in 2006. I am utterly blown away by the massive growth in the downtown core. And I thought the city was in a building boom THEN! Can’t wait to get back there to visit friends again, once I get my passport renewed. But it’ll definitely feel different from my last visit…
Love from TO to our Buffalonian brothers!
Another Major factor not mentioned is Toronto’s Greenbelt. It’s one of just a handful of cities in North America with a sprawl limiting greenbelt and it is wildly successful. The suburban cities that surround Toronto have run out of, or nearly run out of space to sprawl out over and this has led to suburbs densifying as well.
Our premier ford’s Highway is really making me angry. I wonder if Trudeau will step in, as this also concerns the environment
Toronto area looks like a small area. It is geographically small. You can be in fields and farms twenty to twenty five miles from the lake. By contrast, Atlanta is at least three times the size, geographically.
@@willp.8120 Yeah i’m sure greater atlanta is larger but its just suburban sprawl.
@@willp.8120 Atlanta is a giant rural village. It's like living in Siberia. Don't brag about it lol.
Toronto Goldenhorse is huge - it extends all the way to Niagara.
@@ahmedzakikhan7639 Rural village? Don't be absurd. Your "Golden Horseshoe" isn't contiguous development.
There are a number of transit expansion projects currently underway in the city of Toronto. Rapid transit network improvement is one of the reasons why the city is growing.
And they’ll be under construction until your grandchildren go to college
@@josephjarosz9009 Finch West LRT essentially is taking only 4 years to finish
A line 5 eglinton build for 7 years undone are u kidding
Transit is about 30-40 years behind where it needs to be. The construction is incredibly slow and bureaucratic.
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@@SnowyButterfly1 🤣
British moffo, take away that strand of hair or I might break my phone's screen.
@@samuraijosh1595 nope
Fantastic! Every aspect of this story is almost spine-tingling, and I'm 78. May 20, 2022. St. Joseph, MO, USA
Incredibly glad you addressed the Yellow belt, it is seldom talked about when it comes to the lack of affordable housing in the GTA.
Toronto is a happy place for me. It feels like a bigger version of Boston but with the Manhattenization.. and yet the city lacks the shoulder rubbing bustle of NYC. I typically stay in a high-rise hotel and, before hitting the sack, love gazing out at the skyscrapers for a few minutes wondering about the lives and aspirations of people behind those soft, lighted windows. Hey, its my thing to do when in town!
I prefer visiting Mexico and feeling actually free in Tepatitlan Jalisco
there really has been a massive drop in pedestrian traffic and public transit usage since the pandemic..
@@dubiousdistinction6500 it seems back to normal when I'm in downtown.
@@Skyfoogle i know the public transit numbers are way down and u been in the path system recently? real quiet compared to pre covid
And by 2030 or so Canada would be merged with America and it would start by Alberta.
Moved to Toronto 22 years ago. The changes have been insane and it is just starting. More in the pipeline for approval than even being built. Not to mention 3 new subway lines.
One thing I wish the video touched on more was the periphery skyline...something that you seldom see. The downtown core is not the only booming skyscraper area. Areas like Yonge-Eg, Humber Bay, VCC, Square One, Golden Mile, etc, are all going through massive building booms, and combined they rival downtown.
@@globalfoodaction6748 Yes. Generally disappointed in the B roll.
This is awesome, Toronto is an interesting place. Was born there but live across the lake now. Love visiting it everytime
The funny thing is, the best part of Toronto is the areas around the downtown core. If you are visiting the city I highly encourage you to leave the city center and experience the many neighborhoods that are great. Danforth, beaches, the annex, high park, distillery, Kensington market, Leslieville. The city has so much more to offer when you get outside of the high density areas. There are a lot of great live music venues and good entertainment such as second city.
I am proud the say I am part of The One and other skyscrapers projects in Toronto and the GTA. Fabricating and welding the structural steel has been an amazing challenge. Having my fingerprint on this historical project is very surreal.
Found part of the problem, everybody! And he's PROUD!
nothing ever gets done!! and the city is ugly
Wow I had no idea that Toronto is growing so much!
Toronto has a huge amount of potential! We definitely need more affordable housing though!
Love this video profile more of Toronto, would love to see more Canadian videos showcasing Canadian construction and architecture!
I was amazed going to Toronto 10 years ago and seeing the crazy amount of growth
Crazy slump instead
@@jackmiller7324 how?
@@jackmiller7324 i think they meant growth as in the amount of buildings, but i respect ur opinion lmao
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Of note, most people going to downtown actually commute by transit, especially pre pandemic. What needs to be changed is increasing suburb-suburb transit use, which is why projects like the Eglinton Crosstown and Scarborough Subway extension are being built.
In addition, transit capacity in Downtown is oversaturated (pre pandemic), so a new downtown subway is being constructed. Ultimately it's not enough for the amount of residents planned on being added to the city, and the city needs to get serious about an additional downtown subway, and trunk from a new suburb.
1) The most important thing they can do to solve the housing shortage is to change the zoning laws to allow more housing density. 5:37 shows the scale of these zones
2) Hope they won't build super high rises near CN tower, because currently buildings close to CN tower are shorter, creating that unique Toronto skyline
3) Excellent video!!
Great coverage of Toronto by B1M! We're proud to have our HQ here and definitely looking forward to the rapid changes over the next few years.
Translation from Foster & Partners into English:
"Maximized in terms of its size and volume" = We're going to use all the space
"To create a major urban room" = A space for shops
"Distinct horizontal bands" = Concrete-covered columns
my whole life i have been an atlas man, and one tends to overlook many places and what amazing things they bring, so i thank you for this channel and the way you change one's view of each place you video...........now the atlas becomes more exciting, with Fred Mills and B1M channel...
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Great video! would love to see more on Toronto.
I have family that lives in Toronto; hopefully this summer I’ll get to see what downtown looks like!
Nice!
I’m going next week, excited to see how it has changed since 2016!
Did you get the clot shot?
My personal opinion is Toronto is not that great. Not sure how other cities are like, but I felt it was a concrete jungle. Just building and roads. Really loved Vancouver though as it felt like they included greenery into their design throughout the city
I go there every day for uni, nothing special lol. Vancouver's city layout is a lot better. There's nothing that feels like it fits in Toronto. It just seems like people place buildings wherever they could find the space to and the designs are so generic and bland. No personality in the city skyscraper architecture.
It would be interesting to see a video on Toronto's planned Ontario subway line. It's recently had developments and would make for a great video
it's already under construction
Given all I read about affordability of housing in Toronto, that's probably the only way to go: just shove all those working class peasants into Ontario. That way the city can become more and more expensive while the people actually working for generating all that wealth can commute for half their non-working hours.
Thank you for the video!
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Just like Manhattan, it will become impossible for anyone to live in with rents totaling several thousand a month while simultaneously having a massive homelessness problem.... Oh wait, that's how it is already! They really are ahead of the game!
Yellow zones are part of the problem it seems. I wonder why there can't be more dense development zones
@@ayoCC Lots of rich, white "liberals" who want to end homelessness as long as it's done in someone else's backyard. They wouldn't want to interact with the POORS, ew, and drive down property values? Better block all new construction of actually affordable housing and just keep those people homeless.
New York is a bit overrated when you think about it, everyone acts like it's perfect but has way too many problems
New york doesn't allow dense development around Brooklyn's downtown, it is the sole reason why it's so expensive. Blame the activists who believe preserving 100 year old single family brownstones is worth the hundreds of thousands of displacements that occur due to rising rents.
@@daikon711 There's plenty of new construction in Brooklyn. Prices unfortunately are sky high. Your argument about not enough dense development would stand if not for the number of empty apartments wile landlords are keeping the prices high. It's simply rentier capitalism eating society from within, nothing else.
Thank you for mentioning the ridiculous amount of land zoned for exclusively single family homes in Toronto. As cool as skyscrapers are, they really shouldn't be necessary in a city with sane zoning.
Plus no new developments in the yellow belt, no major ones, make the neighbourhoods so stale and boring.. me and my friends have nothing to do locally. The main reason why I was born in the east end and I’m moving to Amsterdam, Toronto is not for the young.
Contrary to popular belief high rises that house more people are often cheaper than other forms of housing, however I do agree that zoning does need to be reformed as not everyone wants to live in a high rise
Anything but single family homes is slavery
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Looking across lake Ontario from the escarpment in Stoney Creek, on a beautiful day, the Toronto skyline looks so cool!!! One of many reasons why ppl flock to the city!
When I lived in the very NW corner of NY, I would go to a lakefront park and I had similar thoughts.
This world is rapidly passing away and I hope that you repent and take time to change before all out disaster occurs! Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36) if you believed in Messiah you would be following His commands as best as you could. If you are not a follower of Messiah I would highly recommend becoming one. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life - Revelation 3:20.
Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God.
Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc. Have a blessed day!
Very interesting, will be watching to see the progression over the next decade.
I knew it! Toronto is in need of Architecture glad they’re DOING IT BIG
Been waiting for more Toronto based content for years; with the massive number of skyscrapers being approved & built to the various transit lines being worked on there aren't many North American or Global cities that are as interesting (construction & infrastructure wise) than Toronto.
Toronto is washed. Grew up there it’s becoming worse and worse every year.
great contents and wonderful videos. thanks for sharing .....!
Another fantastic video!
Thank you so much!! 🙌
Been waiting to hear Fred talk about The One for years now. Surprised he didn’t bring up Pinnacle or Forma for their 300M+ status
Thank you for sharing.
That freeway in Toronto is a BEAST! 😳
Glad to see a video of Toronto skyscrapers
Love Toronto getting more YT attention! We have some really interesting transit projects like the Eglinton LRT and the Ontario line that could make for good B1M videos.
Toronto sucks
You NEED to check out RMTransit if you are interested in transit in Toronto and all around the world
As always great video!!
I grew up in Toronto and it’s truly amazing 🔥
@vliduu zeeb Wow that’s Very interesting , it’s definitely a mix of races mainly Caribbean, whites and Tamil and every other mix , gives me uk vibes mixed with the states
Practically obsessed with this channel, scrolling all the day to see if something new is uploaded. great work B1M
The TV show 'Suits' shot most of its Manhattan street scenes in Toronto.
Hi from Melbourne Australia. We have similar urban dynamics here, although I would say there has been more allowance for more medium density and in-fill in the inner city suburbs.
Love this channel and amazing to see Toronto highlighted. Toronto is quickly becoming one of the true global cities.
Toronto is a shithole, NOT a global city lmfao. source: living here for 20 years.
It already is.
Become a turd like new orland instead
Toronto is a bland city. Building a bunch of ugly high rises doesn't make your city iconic.
It already is a global city.
It's been a long time since I have been to Toronto. With all the new editions I might have to return. I am sure Toronto is still a wonderful city.
dont bother it sucks
@@chelseagirl278 Speak for yourself
Half of those articles you highlighted about real estate are that there is no affordable houses due to investors purchasing up a lot of the condo markets. Many of those condos are over 50% empty but due to the way the industry keeps track, they are registered as occupied. The massive boom is because of the current provincial government’s drive to push big businesses. The larger projects have been removing parks and public spaces. Converting these “yellow belt” zones to condos and commercial have been only pushing the general work force to leave the city to find affordable housing. If you want a great example of this, take a look at the “Aura” condo that went up just south of “the One”. A building intended to be connected to the transit, have modern facilities, and is connected to the underground path. Almost all the commercial real estate is empty, the condo itself is almost entirely empty when viewed at night. Or how about the Telus tower region where the contractors had pushed the area to international investors who converted the low quality (see how much glass breaks and current work-orders out on these buildings) into party buildings. Drug raids, noise complaints, and perpetual renovations plague these places due to the owners not both properly maintaining them as well as the home occupiers negligences.
I say all that without a solution mind you, I just see these as a Toronto resident. One who has seen rent prices now sit at over $1,700CAD + utilities for a bachelor/studio. I just want to bring this up in your video as it shines a completely different light on the issue. It sounds like from this video that the issue is that there isn’t enough and that the city needs more. We don’t we need the industry to recognize that the market is getting to a point where the people who NEED to live in this city are very close to not being able to as prices reflect artificial or incorrect data.
There’s absolutely no evidence pointing to condos sitting over 50% vacant.
Toronto's skyline is fantastic, it looks incredible from all angles.
Bez ppls expanding for house capacity
Looks like dystopian cyberpunk abomination
You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about 💀💀
One thing I like about NYC and Chicago is their historic skyscrapers from the 1920's and 30s. Toronto has a few historic tall buildings but is mostly glass and steel boxes with no real notable landmarks apart from the CN Tower. Still, it's my birth city and I do like Toronto for all of its green space, and cleanliness. Plus it's a relatively safe city compared with many big American counterparts.
That's why all immigrants should start moving to Canada where, as you said, there is safety, great education, affordable healthcare, everything is cheap, everyone's accepting, its very clean, and not to mention the benefits you get there.
Let the USA heal for a while, and maybe once they are healed they can consider it then.
@@cashewnuttel9054 US has way more freedom than Canada.
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But of low quality.
Actually, everything is expensive in Canada with higher taxes and so-so salaries.
Great video! Well done with your works, amazing video, and very informative as well 👍
Been there, very beautiful city!
Amazing job. Well done. Maybe for the next topic you can compare Sydney and Toronto with somewhere that were successful to control the housing price.
As we quickly discovered in all of our east coast cities in Oz, more skyscrapers doesn't equal a 'better' city for anyone other than developers and their politician allies. No question that the skyline is often a spectacle (particularly at night), but the model of living in the burbs and battling your way into the city 5 days a week is severely dated. The pandemic really shook the foundations of small businesses that rely on those teeming masses 5-6 days a week and it was sad to see eateries that had been in business for decades close their doors.
I recognized this was happening years ago, glad others see it
As a Brit, who’s been there quite a few times, I’m a big fan of ‘Toranno’. 😊
Excellent report! Toronto has a world class skyline!
Muy interesante su video !!..
Thanks you .
Love Toronto! Have lived in the city my nearly 72 years. Wonderful city; lots of green space, diverse community neighbourhoods - great restaurants & shopping.Close to Lake Ontario beaches, very walkable, bicycle or take the streetcar/subway to enjoy this vibrant city.
Find the guy with a net worth in the low seven figures, at least - FOUND HIM, EVERYBODY! What do I win?!
ugly looking city. No imagination. No soul. Just glass blocks. Dystopian.
Hey! Come over to the Netherlands! We are sure you would be in a shock of how walkable and green this country's cities are compared to Toronto :) If you can do it, of course, assuming you are 72 years old, this won't be easy for everybody at that age :)
40 C degrees below zero (0) in winter, don't go to Toronto !!!
@@hanfucolorful9656 Coldest temperature ever recorded in Toronto was -33°C in 1859. Average low temperature during coldest part of the year (January) is -2°C.
To anyone having been to both cities, NYC is in a whole other universe compared to Toronto in every possible way.
The rats are definitely much more abundent and the city smells a lot worse but NYC has so much character while Toronto is simply "nice"
Manhattanization refers to vertical growth of downtown/other nodes and the sky high population density, amenities, and energy that result. It's not meant to infer that Toronto is becoming like New York or that it wants to mimic New York. Toronto is becoming a bigger better version of itself ....and that's precisely what it should aim for.
nyc is a total shithole compared to toronto I've lived in both. sure the winters are more harsh in toronto. but not having to worry about violent crime, the air you breathe, or the water you drink is very underrated in cities this big. nyc feels old and outdated compared to toronto. the fact that new yorkers are mostly miserable and angry and torontonians are generally nice and happy says it all about these two cities.
@@lepoldbuttersstotchive spent a good amount of time all around new york and seen very few rats and noticed almost no smells, nor crime. Idk how people develop these notions of NYC. Ive had nothing but a good time there. Could be chance
SO happy i left Toronto five years ago. too busy, hectic, too many people and expensive. NEVER going back.
And rude people and dangerous crime
perfectly said!
This was great… subscribed
Insert the 30 Rock joke: "Toronto is like New York, without all the stuff"
That is true, I can't think of anything to do in the city.
@@thisismarkbro besides raptors games, I don’t think there’s much to do
@@thisismarkbro Theatre? (There's tons of it.) Festivals? Walking in the ravines/Don Trail/Waterfront? Paddling the Humber (Toronto Adventures)? Seeing some of the programming at Harbourfront? Checking out museums/galleries of all sizes and interests? Catching the Jays/TFC/Rock (Rock games are so much fun and affordable if you've never experienced one)?
@@MKPiatkowski Also the Scarborough Bluffs
We have winters here so those small units are pretty terrible for anyone with kids and beyond. The Yellow Belt needs to be opened up to 4plex's that can be purchased.... If Toronto doesn't change 2 entire generations and future generations will not have the chance to purchase anything.... So they'll leave.
Exactly, I laughed when he said the city can become your playground and dining room... fails to acknowledge brutal winters we have that make half the year a write off
@@Shall0ws Exactly. Six hundred square feet IS a cell! Urban planners are idiots living in a dream world.
Same in Shenzhen, I remembered as a kid back in the early 90s, the tallest building was the Guomao building at 500 feet, with a rotating restaurant on the 40th top floor. Now that building is absolutely dwarfed by any of the surrounding buildings and appears tiny. Going back in 2005, there's Shun Hing square which was twice as tall, and 2017 with the Ping An center which is 2000 feet tall. There are over 300 buildings there over 600 feet tall. Shenzhen has become just as expensive as NYC yet the average wage is a mere $1500 per month. A basic 500 sqft apartment costs $800000 in Shenzhen for reference. Shenzhen started out as a fishing village 50 years ago and now is as big as NYC
My dad is a glazer working at the One right now, he says it is by far one of the most interesting and complex projects he has worked on
my favourite channel, keep doing what you're doing
There are no words to describe how much I love this city. I live close to downtown, and the atmosphere and liveliness of Toronto, along with the politeness of its people, is unlike any other city. I take walks downtown weekly, and passing from the uptown residential areas into the downtown core and back, is one of my favorite things to do. On that short walk, I pass through several gems, like Forest Hill, the Annex, and Yorkville. And the city skyline at dusk in the summertime is something to behold. The city has its challenges, like expensive housing and living costs, but it also has its rewards for city folk like me.
Good for you. I live in Edmonton and hate it. But housing is cheap at least.
Walking in the elements... crazy people, especially in Winter.
Boston, MA, Worcester, MA, and Providence, RI are used as stand-ins for each other as well as NYC for a lot of movies. American Hustle, RIPD, and Honest Thief, The Equalizer, and Black Panther to name a few.
my parents bought our house here in toronto in the late 90s for less than a fifth of its current value… meanwhile, the outrageous rent in the new condos being built downtown is forcing many people to spend the majority of their income on housing in a way that limits their contribution to the broader economy. unless we reform our zoning laws to make more room for mixed use housing and stop building luxury condos that even the middle class can’t afford, the housing crisis will only worsen. that’s what the frenetic development of the toronto skyline actually symbolizes
@@SnowyButterfly1 thanks! koe no katachi is my favourite film:)
man, this is a hard video to watch amidst the serious housing crisis happening in southwestern Ontario. How many of these new developments are rentals? If they aren't, how can an average Torontonian begin to afford $600k+ for a one bedroom condo? It is known that many neighbouring cities of Toronto have grown in response to people driving in for work, since the city itself is unaffordable, contributing to the congestion issue.
The affordability issue is caused by people bedding 3 or 4 times overasking price, on older homes some are even Falling apart, while these homes are way overpriced by at least 10 times more to begin with , that gives everyone an idea of if his cardboard junker has sold for millions so is mine, this creates a domino effects on the entire City market, where once only mansions in designated areas of town exclusively sold for millions, while everything else around sold for a much more reasonable price, those days are long gone, but they could be coming back the market is desperately due a correction and interests rates are finally raining in their toll.
The next housing crisis will make 2008 look like peanuts
it filters over the whole province. There is nothing that is not effected by this, in NWO, it effects us as well. Affordable housing is almost non-existence. I lived inToronto for 25 years, there is no way I could live there now, and I am considered higher middle income.
You can thank the federal government for pumping too much money and immigrants into the country.
@Garrus Vakarian Yes, lets blame the immigrants that can't even afford it
Finally a video about my home town 🙏🏻
Love seeing Toronto on the channel. Ive lived in the city all my life. I love the diversity, art, culture, fashion, food, Toronto has it all for a city girl like me.
So cool to see Toronto get some attention from a big channel since it usually gets overlooked because of the US's proximity.
Hopefully this means they will invest more on transportation infrastructure which will expand out, I'd love to have more transportation options from Niagara to Toronto to Ottawa/Quebec.
It's very easy to pick out Toronto from NYC in film if you have spent any time in Toronto.
Auckland, Sydney, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, New England are rapidly urbanizing too.
Toronto's condo boom has been going on for over 20 years now. Over this time-period, you would have a hard time NOT finding a period where there were less than 100 developments under construction at one time. The only real difference is that in terms of height, 70 floors is the new 50, and 80-90+ floors raises few eyebrows.
In 2010 Toronto hosted the G20. This was during the aftermath for the Financial Crisis. The world was still reeling. When representatives and leaders from around the world arrived, and saw building cranes dotting the skyline in every direction, then Toronto mayor David Miller described their reaction as "stunned disbelief" at the flurry of construction activity, as they had NO construction cranes back home. There was a slight pause of new development releases for a few months during the financial crisis, but when you have north of 100 construction developments already under way, that pause is imperceptible.
Whether it was the 2008 financial crisis or the global pandemic the skyscraper building boom has continued unabated since the late 90's. Much to the chagrin of those who have been calling for a bursting of the bubble for 20 years now.
Toronto overtook Los Angeles as the #1 immigrant destination in North America before the pandemic. We need somewhere to house these people.
I am hoping B1M will be back to cover the Frank Gehry designed condo development (renamed Forma). It's a stunning development that will become a city icon once completed.
www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2022/03/toronto-frank-gehry-condo-skyscrapers/
I'm a long-time subscriber of your channel. Keep up the great work.
Empty? Not at all. Look, Manhattaniztion refers to the incredible building boom. It does not mean Toronto is just like New York, or magically suddenly 3 times it's current population. With the vast increase of density downtown Toronto has busy sidewalks and the city has a real buzz in my opinion. No, it is not New York, nor should that be it's goal.
I've only had the pleasure of visiting Toronto once before, but I adored it. Never before have I been somewhere where so much of the built environment looked brand-new. It reminded me a lot of one of my other favorite cities, Chicago, and instantly became a consideration for relocation, should leaving the US become feasible and beneficial. The Yellow Belt is definitely a major factor in the region's unaffordability, and I hope the wave of zoning-reforms seen in some US states and cities spreads into Canada, which has historically been a little better than us in mixed-uses and residential-density, anyway. Seeing the waves of immigration to Canada makes me proud of them, and their cities' future as major cosmopolitan global centers. I hope to see public transit in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, etc one day come to be some of the best in the world.
Zoning will do nothing to solve affordability because it's not a supply issue. That immigration you're so happy about is driving much of the excessive demand for housing. Along with infinite low interest money from the federal government.
Canada will never have cutting edge public transit due to Canada only having 34 million citizens and in turn much less spendable money for such investments
I'm in high school right now, and I think that when I graduate college, I want to move to Toronto! I'll be finished in 2029, so then hopefully some of the projects will be done!
only if you're rich